{"id":122712,"date":"2016-05-27T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T10:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/122712\/is-this-the-most-racist-advert-ever\/"},"modified":"2016-05-27T12:36:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T10:36:19","slug":"is-this-the-most-racist-advert-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/05\/27\/is-this-the-most-racist-advert-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the most racist advert ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ad begins with a black man in a room with a Chinese woman, they begin flirting and he leans in for a kiss. She then thrusts a detergent capsule into his mouth and throws him into the washing machine.<\/p>\n<p>What happens next has shocked the online world.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xq-I0JRhvt4<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The ad apparently rips off a very similar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PjuamNkZ5YQ\" target=\"_blank\">Italian advert<\/a> where a slim Italian man is washed in &#8220;colour&#8221; and emerges as a muscular black man. The slogan was &#8220;Colour is better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Here are some of the reactions from Twitter:<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Seriously??? In today&#39;s day n age, how can anyone score such an outrageous own goal!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ChineseAD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChineseAD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Racism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Racism<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RacistAd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RacistAd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EZXjW2xahb\">https:\/\/t.co\/EZXjW2xahb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Animesh K \ud83d\udd34\ud83c\udfc1 (@mindTumult) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mindTumult\/status\/736105131410743296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So now we are forced to watch a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ChineseAd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChineseAd<\/a> where a black man is forced into a washing machine to change his skin to white ugh <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/TiredOfRacism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TiredOfRacism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rediet \u00ae (@RediTweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RediTweets\/status\/736045973026316288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/castillorocas\/status\/736068827679625216<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In light of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RacistChineseAd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RacistChineseAd<\/a> it&#39;s impt to understand the context behind <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Chinese?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Chinese<\/a> racial attitudes towards black ppl: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RLeyrjIW4R\">https:\/\/t.co\/RLeyrjIW4R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The China-Global South Project (@ChinaGSProject) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChinaGSProject\/status\/736083335944933376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RacistChineseAd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RacistChineseAd<\/a> hey it actually works! I just came out of the wash with sparkling white tee and looking chinese&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g7lc6njguK\">pic.twitter.com\/g7lc6njguK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dirga (@diekarasu) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/diekarasu\/status\/736020615912554496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='ac78b1d51611acd88aa71a02e9819cd0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese ad for detergent has sparked outrage over its blatant racial overtones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":122713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[2247,4843,11160,9826,11161],"class_list":["post-122712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-advertising","tag-china","tag-chinese-ad","tag-racism","tag-racist"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Advertising","china","chinese ad","racism","racist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}