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7 months ago
in Whopper Virgins: it doesn’t get much more offensive than this on The Inquisitr
Hey dipshits, what makes it offensive is the way that it portrays Romanians, Thais, etc. Not all people from these countries are backward, ignorant bumpkins who have no notion of the outside world. In fact Chiang Mai Thailand is a relatively cosmopolitan city. They bring assholes from way out in the mountains and call them "Chaing Mai Villagers." It's the same as if a Japanese company took West Virginian Mountain men and talked about how they didn't know what sushi was.
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Marguerite
Hey, dumbass, most everybody knows that these people aren't representative of their countries. The fact that you don't know that everybody else knows, and you think you have to tell the rest of us clueless folk, is what makes you an idiot. A condescending, over-educated, elitist, politically-correct idiot, lacking in all common sense.
baconman
wow you suck balls chaing
CoryOBrien
I don't think the intent was to say that these people are representatives of their entire country, but instead was to quickly get across the fact that they haven't been exposed to burgers or burger advertising before because they aren't from main street America.
The idea is that Americans are quick to judge and make assumptions (which is our own fault), so using people in their native clothing sends a much clearer message than having people in blue jeans and a t-shirt but still trying to claim that they're from the remote parts of the world that don't have a Burger King on every street corner. Plus, the full 'documentary' hasn't even debuted yet, so all of this negative publicity seems a bit premature in my opinion.
However, the negative publicity sure has sparked a lot of interest in the commercial, so I think it's served them well, since they did take steps to help out the villages that they were visiting for the film, and they obviously want to spark some amount of controversy as seen by the use of the word 'Virgins' in the title, which isn't exactly a word that you hear used everyday, especially in advertising.
http://thefutureofads.com/2008/12/05/controvers...
The idea is that Americans are quick to judge and make assumptions (which is our own fault), so using people in their native clothing sends a much clearer message than having people in blue jeans and a t-shirt but still trying to claim that they're from the remote parts of the world that don't have a Burger King on every street corner. Plus, the full 'documentary' hasn't even debuted yet, so all of this negative publicity seems a bit premature in my opinion.
However, the negative publicity sure has sparked a lot of interest in the commercial, so I think it's served them well, since they did take steps to help out the villages that they were visiting for the film, and they obviously want to spark some amount of controversy as seen by the use of the word 'Virgins' in the title, which isn't exactly a word that you hear used everyday, especially in advertising.
http://thefutureofads.com/2008/12/05/controvers...
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