Before we get started watch the two following ad’s, both of which are for a laundry detergent.(Yes really)
First up we have a recent Ad from China
For those of you who didn’t or cant click play the ad involves a dirty black man being shoved into a washing machine and coming out a clean Chinese man.
Now watch ad 2
This ad is a near mirror of the first, involving a disheveled and not very fit white man being shoved into a washing machine and coming out a very ripped black man.
Now it seems the second ad may be in response to the first. And both have predictably been called racist by many. But here’s my question, which no one else seems to be asking.
Which of these two cultures would you bet on in a conflict? Would it be the one confidant enough to say in visual language that “our men are better than foreign men”? Or the one that says “our men are crap, and obviously foreign men are better”?
Which strikes you as a commercial made by a culture on the rise and which strikes you as being made by a culture in decline?
Mars Is 
Good point. I guess it depends on whether it sells any detergent in Italy. I thought the Chinese one was funny and the other disturbing, which I was trying to figure out. I’m a mutt myself, red, white and black, as are most NDNs these days, with varying percentages, but it was the mixing that bothered me.
Of course the Freedman and earlier escapees assimilated, as did the NDNs later, which might have some bearing.
I guess it’s all a lot more complicated than all the idiots yelling “raacisssss” make out.
I bet the Italian men don’t think much of it, either.
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NDN? I don’t recognize the term. The thing is its easy to call racism (especially since In my own experience Asians are, on the whole, far more racist that westerners in general. But what concerns me is that as a culture, it feels like western civilization has lost its faith in itself. When a confidant culture clashes with a self-hating culture, the outcome is fairly predictable.
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Oh no question. I actually had forgotten that practically everyone is more racist than we, so I got a little sidetracked, but we’re in the same boat. Our politics now is the faithless against those of us still keeping. We just have to stop them from taking us all down with them. They can shove the suicide pact.
NDN=> Indian, NA, AI FN or whatever bullshit the pc police tell us we’re supposed to call ourselves next.
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