Eat Mor POPEYES!

I know that Coca-cola uses Coca leaves in its recipes still in other countries like Africa. But this is insane.

No more KFC for me. Pass it on...

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Brawl

I brought that one up to a guy I talk to in Australia . He said down there it isnt looked at like that . He said there is a huge soccer rivalry between the two and the commercial is geared towards it .

Not sure how much of that is true but I'm sure we have some on here from that part of the world that can enlighten us .

mrmckoy

KFC is an american based company... no way

But what teams were competing against each other? White vs black? lol... Seriously, I missed the correlation to sports.

Doza is from Australia. He might know but he is also white so i'm not sure if that might change his perspective some.

King Tibbs

The first ad is a Korean company that doesn't trade outside of Asia but its no doubt using racist stereotypes.

The second ad, I go against popular opinion I don't think its racist. Brawls' Australian friend is correct but its not soccer its the English game cricket (I live in England).

You have to be familiar with cricket to get it. The competing teams are Australia and the West Indies. West Indies are no as good as they used to be but back in the day West Indies and Australia were the two best cricket teams in the world. West indies crowds are famous for their singing and dancing during a cricket match and I honestly believe the ad could have been pizza or hamburgers, the joke was meant to be he got them to be quiet.

If anything in is a a stereotype its the West Indies crowds singing and dancing. The fried chicken stereotype is not normally applied to West Indians its an American thing which most Australians are not familiar with.

bohoSoul

I don't even see the first one as racist. Corny maybe. I've seen many commercials and television shows tiptoe around humor about so called tribal characters. ( stereotypes) Pacific Islander, Aborigine, African, South American, Mayan and others.

The usual western comic-view of these people is based on their supposed "awe" of anything western. And the whole cannibal thing is old hat. It may have come to view more frequently in our "more" racist past. But I've heard white comedians make Donner Family jokes before. ( Donner Party...table for 5! Robin Williams)

So the corny joke is: guy is about t get eaten and produces fried chicken. Would it be "non-racist" if the natives were Samoan looking? What if he magically produced A Big Mac?

If anything we are all racist and have to learn to call out the malicious on both sides of the color line. Not the natural benign "PC" smoke screens.

( steps off soap box to grab some boneless honey hot wings.....no napkins....licking fingers cuz i'm as country as any redneck or darkie.)

mrmckoy

hmmm great debate sparked. enlightened minds are a good thing

JJ45

Popeyes is better anyways

numero05

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