https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H0xPWAtaa8 Apparently there are many people who are saying its like black face with voices. I personally really love it and watch it several times a day.
Well it's definitely racist, but it's not as racist as when they were literally Nazis.
But I'm pretty sure the Volks they were created to make Wagens for aren't Jamaican, so it probably won't hurt their sales.
Ehh, I don't really see how it could be called racist, though you could say it's playing up sterotypes. It seems pretty innocuous to me, no more controversial than the various beer commercials who have used Jamaican accents to create an image of relaxation and such.
Interestingly enough, it seems that all the Jamaicans actually commenting are not offended at all, just other people. I mean, it's basically portraying them as cheery happy people that makes everyone else feel better just by pretending to be more like them. Is it a racist stereotype? Maybe. It is a negative racist stereotype? Not in the slightest.
Yeah Cat, that seems apt.
Whoopi Goldberg covered it best with her comment about the ad.. "Is it more racist when a bunch of people complain about a white man having a Jamaican accent or when these same people totally overlooked that white people have lived in Jamaica for decades and believe that only black people live there. Think about it."
- CQ
I still think the Holocaust was most racist.
Oh, those Germans will never learn...
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Quote from: crimsonquill on February 01, 2013, 06:05:10 PM
Whoopi Goldberg covered it best with her comment about the ad.. "Is it more racist when a bunch of people complain about a white man having a Jamaican accent or when these same people totally overlooked that white people have lived in Jamaica for decades and believe that only black people live there. Think about it."
- CQ
Ha, very nice.
I don't know if it's racist. i don't think it's all that funny, but not racist. I really just like the VW motto: Das Auto!