Astroblack Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Although it may be a huge misunderstanding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPb7zdKJ-Dw&feature=related Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 ;D Jesus fucking Christ that's just... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 I don't think it's racist, I think it's just... I have no idea what it is. Still, if it was an American ad, it would offend the hell out of me, but I don't know what to do with that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 I've heard of, but not seen, the other ads in the Australia KFC "Crowd Pleaser" campaign following the same "make friends via fried chicken" formula. This one is just an Australia fan sitting in the wrong section. I'm unaware of a similar stereotype existing in Australia that all dark skinned West Indies people enjoy fried chicken. I think it'd be ridiculous to get all up in arms and be offended on their behalf by imposing our context when there was none to begin with. edit: Nope, it's a Cricket Survival Guide series : http://www.kfc.com.au/cricket/index.asp I stand corrected, as the man in orthopedic shoes said. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 the jokes not about race , its about being stuck in the middle of the oppositions fans. its shit like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Eh? In what way could it be racist? As cp40 said, the whole point is about opposition fans, nothing to do with their race. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandamninator Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Exactly, if they made this ad while the Ashes were on they'd have the lone ocker offering the bucket to a punch of pissed middle aged brits with pot bellies. lol at the dipshit Americans (and i'm usually the guy who defends Yanks from those usual taunts) getting up in arms about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 It's another case of something being more offensive in one county than another - ie "Paki" is more offensive in the UK than Australia because of the way it's been used in the past, a racial slur for all people of a certain race in one country, a friendly contraction for people from a certain country in another, Chinese-made sofas shipped to the US being available in "nigger brown" etc In America the stereotype of the dumb, uncultured black person eating nothing but watermelon and KFC has been ubiquitous for ages. so it's not really surprising that it's viewed differently on the other side of the world to how the writers (hopefully) thought it would be. Spoiler for examples of KFC related racism... http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/853/niggerheaven8116216.jpg http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7083/f12062552202mdb501b1fb9.jpg http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/4355/kfc28151136.jpg http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1581/kfc8169136.png http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/9168/kfcevidence618604385568.gif http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3554/screamercrieskfc8738244.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 That last kid one is a ripoff http://imgur.com/MKygU.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Its clever as it isn't outright racism. The advert is suggesting that everybody likes KFC, and if you're stuck in the away end with a home team replica shirt on (or vice versa) it is a good way to break the ice, as everyone likes KFC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Nah. It would have been racist if he'd have said "niggers" though. Nowt racist about giving a group of human beings a bucket of KFC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 There is no discussion here people, step away from the thread, there's nothing to see here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 http://i50.tinypic.com/izw70w.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AfroP Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8447457.stm The Australian arm of the fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken has had to withdraw an advertisement after accusations of racial insensitivity. It showed a white cricket fan trying to pacify a group of rowdy West Indian fans by handing around fried chicken. When the advertisement reached America via the internet there were complaints. It was accused of reinforcing a derogatory racial stereotype linking black people in the American deep south with a love of fried food. The advertisement from Kentucky Fried Chicken features a white cricket fan dressed in the green and gold of the Australian team surrounded by a group of West Indian supporters, who are dancing and singing to a calypso beat. He decides to quieten them down by handing around a bucket of fried chicken. Picked up by the American media, the advertisement immediately stirred controversy, because it was alleged to have perpetuated the racial stereotype that black people eat a lot of fried chicken. The fast food chain's head office in America said it was withdrawing the advertisement, and apologised for what it called "any misrepresentation" which might have caused offence. It is the second time in three months that something broadcast in Australia has caused a racial stir in America. The last flare-up was over an entertainment show on the Australian network Channel Nine in which a group of singers appeared with blacked-up faces to impersonate the Jackson Five. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 When the advertisement reached America via the internet there were complaints. Well there's a suprise Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
looneytoon Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Ridiculous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aphrodite Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 [flash=200,200]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vAfXNzXueE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 That KFC add is nothing compared to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHbz1WhVst8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Xdnu90Gc0&feature=player_embedded Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Aye, but it's expected for the Japs and Koreans and that to be racist. That's just the way they are. Bless 'em. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Aye, but it's expected for the Japs and Koreans and that to be racist. That's just the way they are. Bless 'em. You'd think they'd know better than to be racist, what with being foreign and that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Xdnu90Gc0&feature=player_embedded Oh for fucks sake! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 It's a shite ad, but only in America could they claim that an Australian ad featuring people from the West Indies reinforces an American racist stereotype. Hello! Americans!! There's a great big world out here!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 I usually don't agree when people say "it's political correctness gone mad!!!!" etc etc, but there's nothing racist about that advert. I'm sure most West Indian people would think the same, the complaints are a load of bollocks. It unbelieable that firstly, some people complained, and secondly that a professional body upheld the complaint. Thirdly, what the fuck are KFC apologising for? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garth Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 I usually don't agree when people say "it's political correctness gone mad!!!!" etc etc, but there's nothing racist about that advert. I'm sure most West Indian people would think the same, the complaints are a load of bollocks. It unbelieable that firstly, some people complained, and secondly that a professional body upheld the complaint. Thirdly, what the f*** are KFC apologising for? For making shit chicken. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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