Posted on 01/07/2010 12:43:22 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
What? No watermelon?
The diversion: I was thinking that is why you always want to have a basketball to throw.
It seems none of the other people in the commercial seem offended.
You forgot all dinners come with his unique pork stuffing.
If the lone white guy was surrounded by hostiles the commercial might make sense. He was surrounded by smiling happy people, what’s awkward about that?
I don’t thinkanyone even blinked in Australia at the Ad but of course we are all a bunch of racist hicks down here. It seems like it’s the left from the USA who have done all the screaming and KFC being so big in America they had to pull the Ad.
There was a lady from the West Indian community on the TV and she said the Ad was not racist at all and she found it funny - it seems like the West Indians are comfortable with who they are!
Mel
In Australia, it makes perfect sense. The ad is set at the cricket. He’s there suppporting the Australian team. The others are supporting the West Indies. Believe me, you will always feel uncomfortable in that situation - you won’t feel threatened if they are all smiling, but you’re going to be getting ready for a lot of biting comments. And exactly the same thing would apply at the other end of the field if a West Indian found himself among a bunch of Australian fans.
The idiots who made a big deal of this commercial in the United States seem to have failed to understand that Australian culture and US culture are not identical. In simple terms, they've tried to impose their idea of cultural norms on Australia.
In Australia, there is no tradition that fried chicken is a specific favourite of black people. None whatsoever. If you asked Australians what 'cultural group' they associated with fried chicken, they'd most likely say 'Americans' or maybe 'Kentuckians' as KFC is what they'd think of (in Australia, including when it comes to fast food, the tradition is to roast chicken - Red Rooster, our own local chicken chain does this, so do most chicken and chip places). They certainly wouldn't say 'black people' as its hard to imagine anybody more white in appearance than Colonel Sanders.
By the same token, the black people in this commercial are West Indians, not African Americans. And the West Indies has its own very strong and vibrant culinary tradition - this is the Caribbean we're talking about - jerk chicken, and similar, not deep fried chicken.
These idiots have evidenced their own prejudice by basically assuming anglo-Australians will see things in an identical way to white-Americans, and that West Indians will see things in an identical way to African-Americans. All they see is the colour of the skin - no understanding that culture is about a lot more than colour.
Dave Chappelle said he went into to a place in South Carolina and the guy asked “You want fried chicken?”
Obama asked “Do think because I’m black I automatically want fried chicken”.
The guy said “No, sorry. What do you want?”
Chappelle said “Fried chicken.”
Luckily in Australia (my home country), our sense of humor is way bigger than the liberals.
Nam Vet
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