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This Chinese laundry detergent commercial is jaw-droppingly racist

Many men do housework and cooking more than their wives.
In my family, my dad cooks much much more than my mother and mother is jobless and traveling around.
I could confirm this fact. I know it happens several years ago, at least 16 years as I heard it for the first time. It's really not good.

Chinese girls 100% against adding their husbands' family name.
More and more children are named after their mothers' family name.
This one is new thing to my ears. Vietnamese wives keep their name unchanged, but children could choose family name. Father last name adopted as popular.
 
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Han Chinese girls are 100% against adding their husbands' family name even in the remotest village.
More and more children are named after their mothers' family name.
Many men do housework and cooking more than their wives, especially in cities like Shanghai and Chongqing where men have no status in family at all.
In my family, my dad cooks much much more than my mother and my mother is jobless with pensions and traveling around.
You can't just assume because you are from a muslim society in an Asian country.
Asia is far more diverse compared to Europe, Africa and America.
Excuse me kid. I spent much time in your country among your people , living their life during my youth,so thats how i know.
Things may have changed now,but until 90s it was exactly as i say,or may be its some regional thing. I was in Guangzhou area and the city wasn't as flashy as it is now.

About Islam , yes in our faith Men have an upper hand and have certain connected responsibilities and nothing wrong with that.

Now you macho chinese boys can continue your Black/ white / yellow discussion,i am out of here. Dont bother quoting me anymore.
 
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Excuse me kid. I spent much time in your country among your people , living their life during my youth,so thats how i know.
Things may have changed now,but until 90s it was exactly as i say,or may be its some regional thing. I was in Guangzhou area and the city wasn't as flashy as it is now.

About Islam , yes in our faith Men have an upper hand and have certain connected responsibilities and nothing wrong with that.

Now you macho chinese boys can continue your Black/ white / yellow discussion,i am out of here. Dont bother quoting me anymore.
Enjoy your western life
 
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This is true for many asian countries... India and thailand specifically has craze for fair skin, hence fairness creams. However the advertisement is quite brazen, it copied directly from an italian advt, except made it weirder... :)
 
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This is the best choice for that, voted by tourists, @AndrewJin
although it can't turn your black shirt to white shirt, LOL
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This Chinese laundry detergent commercial is jaw-droppingly racist
Updated by German Lopez on May 26, 2016, 11:40 a.m. E


On first thought, a laundry detergent commercial may not seem like a place for any message about race whatsoever. But as the blog Shanghaiist reports, a company in China apparently decided blatant racism was the right way to sell laundry detergent.

The ad, for Qiaobi laundry detergent, starts with a woman doing her laundry, when a paint-splattered black man appears. The woman signals him to her washing machine, then stuffs detergent in his mouth and pushes him into the machine. After the wash is done, a young, clean Chinese man rises out of the machine.


There's not much to explain here. This ad is blatantly racist. (And based on a similar Italian commercial.)

But it's also a reminder that attitudes over race and skin color in China can be very bad. Shanghaiist explained:

Thanks to traditional beauty standards valuing white skin, many Chinese people have a well-established phobia of dark skin which unfortunately also breeds racist attitudes towards people of African descent, who are viewed by some as "dirty" simply because of their skin tone.

Another recent example of how this shows up in marketing, also cited by Shanghaiist, is the promotion for Star Wars: In China, posters for The Force Awakens were altered to minimize John Boyega, a black actor who plays Finn, a central character in the movie.

Of course, China is not alone in its struggles with race and ethnicity. The US has a very long, bad history with how it treats minority groups, and the West is increasingly seeing an increase in Islamophobic attitudes. The racist detergent advertisement, then, is just another ugly example of the kind of racism that's too common around the world.

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/26/11785124/china-laundry-detergent-racist-qiaobi?yptr=yahoo
I saw this commercial yesterday on youtube and I laughed so hard. I found it to be hilarious. Racist? There is a lot more racist going on in this world than looking at this commercial.
Just making a mountain out of a mole Hill.

Do you guys prefer washing powder or liquid?
Lol, an epic question in a racist heated debate. :enjoy:
 
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I prefer liquid.

It used to be that liquids were inferior to powder. The gap has closed significantly. Plus if you do a cold water wash for colored clothes the powder is not going to dissolve as well vs a hot or warm wash for whites.

Powder still has a better price though.
 
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This is true for many asian countries... India and thailand specifically has craze for fair skin, hence fairness creams. However the advertisement is quite brazen, it copied directly from an italian advt, except made it weirder... :)
lol :omghaha::omghaha::omghaha:
I was thinking maybe more white or less hairy at the end.
 
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If made properly this could have been a much funnier ad. Still racist but funnier.
 
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