Posted on 01/01/2022 9:10:58 AM PST by simpson96
Mercedes-Benz’s latest hot car ad has caused Asian social media to blow up over ads featuring models sporting makeup that allegedly creates stereotypical “slanted eyes” which the Chinese find extremely offensive.
The high-end German automaker removed the ad in deference to the Chinese from the social media network Weibo on Dec. 25 after a massive blowup over the “slanted eyes” issue.
“Is there any beauty in this makeup?” one incensed critic wrote, according to the Global Times. “It is not [open for] interpretation. No Chinese will think this kind of ‘beauty’ is attractive,” another remarked.
The Global Times, which is the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda outlet, claimed on Tuesday that the hashtag which translates to “Mercedes-Benz model’s makeup is controversial” had received over 170 million views on Weibo.
"The premise is that Chinese cannot let the West shape our aesthetics,” asserted one critic, via the Global Times. “For those malicious slanderers, we should maintain sufficient vigilance and counter-attack.”
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Bingo! So true! You win the thread!
We drive you long time!
All the Chinese dramas I watch praise the women having large eyes, almost all very round. They also emphasize the quality of the skin and the smallness of the face. My VERY favorite actor put out a book on male skin care.
This might just be current style. Some of the older Chinese paintings show the narrowed, slant style.
Gu Hongzhong - Night Revels of Han Xizai - High Moon
https://youtu.be/wjRrEgpHAIE
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Stupid
All the girls are wearing their eye liner like this.
Ariana Grande for one.
We don't want to start down that slippery slope.
The funny thing is that the models being used now are saving me money.
I look at the children’s clothing ads and close the sites in disgust. Not only must 85% be non-white the models must look angry, disheveled, disaffected, with beard stubble & big hair. That doesn’t even count the sexualization of preteens, another big turnoff.
It’s difficult to estimate $, at least several thousand (8 kids) but I haven’t bought clothes for my cousin’s kids in months between the nonexistent need for dress clothes and revulsion at the models.
Bunch of Wascists just like in Africa, where lighter skin and darker ski are distinguishers of superiority or inferiority...
Yes. It seems it is more important to be PC than to appeal to your customers. What will be next, minority crimminals doing drugs in their ads?
This image isn’t quite big enough to make out the dust mites in her eyelashes. Can you enlarge it?
Don’t forget about the slanted eye virus.
‘Cancel the West’ is their slogan.
With Biden at the helm they will succeed.
I should have checked the size
Ooops
We have apparently infected the Chinese with neurotic crybaby syndrome. That’s payback for COVID.
“We don’t want to start down that slippery slope.”
Yeah, things could get sideways in a hurry.
They're yellow, not white.
Same in Asia, all over Asia. Skin lightening products are a *huge* business there, big money maker.
Well, its a German car, so how about Angela Markle as a model.
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