there is a super bowl add after volkswagen that features a white did for
minnesota who's speaking in a jamaican accent now a lot of people were offended
by this ad but let's take a look at it and then we'll make a judgment ourselves
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all right so there's that inquest and that people are calling a racist in fact
is to give you a few examples of people who are not happy with that act
uh... barbara lippert a editor at large of media plus dot com says i believe the
commercials races because it is just say no black people are happy
that's not the strongest argument i've ever heard in my life but it another
person says that the advertisement was like black face with the voices and that
was from charles and blow new york times columnist
it's interesting that people in the united states are offended by that
because people from jamaica seem like they're not offended by it out all in
fact um... here is the guide
a response by the carribean studies in carribean heritage organization they say
we hasten to assure
the viewing public that being said making just like being american is not
internationally
and not a racist
and one
of the actors featured in the commercial could be needed to make it most
jamaicans are african ancestry
that is to say black
but you make a also is home to a significant mixed race and diverse
racial population
and i think that that's the free damn good response to the commercial on all
of that
brouhaha happening here in the united states young kid this is a nationality
not embrace and so it does take that whole you know political correctness
thing really far which i was quite surprised especially to see how much
you the jamaican and government and
and and and i said you may consider you interviewed for this story they were all
embracing it they said this is that as we love it if it raises
as happy
it's great for our brand it's great for tourism we like it so if the people that
it's a ballot are offended then how
is it really offensive
well i think
maybe you can make an argument that it's it's stereotyping and i a certain
individuals and it's uh... it's a caricature of certain individuals and i
feel like if the people in jamaica are not offended by it that there's no
controversy in right now and it's really it's actually a positive character i
guess you could say it's a caricature of an accents wouldn't you know not
necessarily other people but already accent a particular dialect and and you
know the idea that that
is something that you know even thingy in a positive light everybody's happy
year you know that i'd think isn't
is a good things a positive thing so i thought the idea that would be racist
was first to get that negative things that you know maybe maybe were missing
something here i think this summer's like book
i think you have fun
people on both sides of the garage making unified in prize fund prejudices
jamaica there like i hate this
because maybe they're sick of hearing someone say the came on when they get
that is when they get spoke into the night off it is more knowing these of
course are because they still but i think was close to his annoying because
not everything they can is a stereotypical
caricatured as endorsing disliked people say
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negative things that but he said to them within these next year
was that about you know they react like in the i'm doing my math and you do
where it is an accident vinegar hill
that's annoying yeah i think you know you know i think but it's actually more
about the idea that you can see the first area type of any group that that i
guess is that volkswagens ought to give you always look at intention
over the course of our
jamaican people look bad so thats in this regard as a lot of it
which is annoying me first
today i am cindy is by it
it's really interesting because i've seen that commercial before and it never
really registered they could be offensive like that
as like a it's another
to be completely honest with you i i don't even know how these advertisers
come up with these themes radio i didn't find it like particularly clever or what
i liked what everybody it's hardly remarking person and you're required to
come up with steppin just continually come out with new ideas advertise the
same thing so you know i gotta get my hand for for trying to do something a
little bit different and you know
it seems like it did you make and people don't mind than
then it's probably fine