https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0D-ot2tso8

 

Honestly never thought I'd see the day. How did the black guy even agree to this?

she simply couldn't handle the bbc

 

how you gonna switch a 10" for 0.5" :/

so, if I shove a black man down into a washing machine, he turns Asian?

Yes, this commercial is hilariously racist, but this only comes as a surprise to those who don't know the first thing about Chinese society. They also DGAF what the world thinks of that.

 

EDIT: Somewhat unrelated, but kind of reminds me of the "Nazi chic" thing that goes on there. To them, Imperial Japan was the big bad.

Edited May 27, 201610 yr by ccabal86

for some reason, I can't really feel rascism in this. Hilarious advertisement yeah, rascism? meh

for some reason, I can't really feel rascism in this. Hilarious advertisement yeah, rascism? meh

 

Well, it's racist in a retarded kind of way. It's the juvenile "hahaha, she washed the dirt off that guy and now he's the proper color" joke. Insensitive as hell, but not hate-inspired. Just like the case with the "Cool dressing European guy with a funny mustache" fad.

Edited May 27, 201610 yr by ccabal86

In the USA, any soap company that did something like that, even as a joke, would be out of business the very next day... and would be used as an excuse to burn and loot cities everywhere. Facebook and YouTube have changed a lot of things. It's really sad when we can't laugh at each other anymore. Must be so hard to be a stand-up comedian these days.

They probably could have shown it without the change in skin color. Funny to some, yes. This Chinese girl I showed it to did. "Oh that's mainland China, they're always crazy." lol A couple other people found it funny too but there was several people that were disturbed. It may be a difference in culture. Lighter skin is highly desired, some people in China spend big money on skin whitening products. While they may not particularly mean to offend people, there are those who continue to undergo racism. It is for that reason I believe advertisements similar to this aren't necessary.There is a current extending from social conditions to an individual perception that eventually reputes racist attitudes and beliefs. Looking forward this commercial could support racial pecking order and disadvantage.

Its politically incorrect thats for sure, but I dont think blatantly racist.

 

 

 

how you gonna switch a 10" for 0.5" :/

 

This is also stereotyping.

 

 

In the USA, any soap company that did something like that, even as a joke, would be out of business the very next day... and would be used as an excuse to burn and loot cities everywhere.

 

Thats because you have a large number of African Americans. You make an ad like that in USA you are basically mocking your own citizens.

Its politically incorrect thats for sure, but I dont think blatantly racist.

 

carefull...

 

 

Its politically incorrect thats for sure, but I dont think blatantly racist.  

No, I believe it's blatantly racist... the entire notion that the woman is repulsed by the man until she washes the black off him, is totally racist. What is most wrong is turning a human emotion, or a human preference, into a political issue... it's not illegal to be a racist, and to make being a racist a crime would be the same as making it a crime because you hate the taste of black licorice. It's Progressive political correctness run amok, and we must get control of the it before it totally destroys our freedom.

Being racist isn't a crime. Promoting racism is. This is very damaging to community as a whole, even though the advertisers probably meant it as a joke. I have seen how this works, and I have seen how this affects people. If making sure that people/races aren't marginalized based on how they look undesirable, I really don't want to know what people desire

This was a joke in bad taste. But racism? I wont classify it as such. Racism is when you think that the majority of black people are criminals or when you refuse to hire someone based on his race. Or when you dont want to live next to someone from another race or you refuse to grant them entry to your country just based on their race. There are no shortages of examples of racism not only in the west but also in eastern countries. Arabs and the chinese are generally as much if not more racist then americans or europeans. It exists everywhere, at most places instigated and encouraged by politicians for their own gain.

 

But this is just a bad attempt at a joke and I doubt they really meant that all Black people should be washed to make them clean (or white or chinese in this case).

Did the Cultural Revolution turned people in China upside down? Although I'm ethnically Chinese (frm Singapore) but I still do not understand that such advertising proposals could have been approved by whos in charge and the detergent company itself. Ridiculous. What kind of education are people in China receiving???

Well, not the ethnically sensitive kind, I can assure you

wait, you want people to be ethically sensitice? How PC of you

 

 

seen idiotic commercials before, undoubtfully any nation has one pop up each year or so.

Watch this please https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eWQcOPJgm4

 

It will probably explain a lot. No I don't condone 'racism', however understand that China has never had the same history regarding black slaves or suppression of black people. How I see it is that dark skin in general, not just black, is undesirable from a pure cosmetic point of view. White skin in the past meant, and somewhat in the present means, that you are well off, because you don't have to work (in the scorching sun). This is why all Chinese cosmetic commercials have these pall ass girls in them. It's a beauty standard and not so much trying to look like 'white girls', like some like to believe. The fact is that they got a black actor to play this part, however they could have had a Chinese farmer, a Thai or an Indian and the message would still have been the same. 

Well, they could have just used a chinese coal worker instead, or maybe its just too crappy of a detergent they are selling.