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On our rugged Eastern foothills.....
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2012
I remember there was some backlash about the Cheerios commercial that shows a black father with a biracial kid. Not that most people thought there was anything wrong, but that kind of stuff tends to bring out the racists. General Mills had it posted to YouTube, but they ended up deleting and disabling comments after all the offensive comments.
However, a familiar trope is the Asian female being attracted to a white male, which seems to be more "acceptable" with certain segments of the American public. But recently I noticed a couple of commercials that turn that around. I've barely seen that in popular culture, but I just noticed these two commercials within the past month or so.
There's this Samsung commercial where this couple meet by flirting with the phones (you have to watch to understand) and then they develop their relationship using some feature on their phones. Judging by the comments section, they've probably cleaned up a lot of the overtly racist reactions to the ad. It also seemed to get an inordinate number of dislikes.
The other one is Panda Express, which ironically shows an Asian male being introduced to his white girlfriend's family where he brings takeout. They had different ad last year.
However, a familiar trope is the Asian female being attracted to a white male, which seems to be more "acceptable" with certain segments of the American public. But recently I noticed a couple of commercials that turn that around. I've barely seen that in popular culture, but I just noticed these two commercials within the past month or so.
There's this Samsung commercial where this couple meet by flirting with the phones (you have to watch to understand) and then they develop their relationship using some feature on their phones. Judging by the comments section, they've probably cleaned up a lot of the overtly racist reactions to the ad. It also seemed to get an inordinate number of dislikes.
The other one is Panda Express, which ironically shows an Asian male being introduced to his white girlfriend's family where he brings takeout. They had different ad last year.