As someone with a funny foreign accent, I wasn't really that offended by the ads.
Though as someone with a sense of humor, I was horrified.:)
In general, I thought the "racist" analysis goes overboard. Society's decided stereotypes are funny. There wouldn't have been the same reaction if the accents/jokes were British/French/(insert W. European country)
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As someone with a funny foreign accent, I wasn't really that offended by the ads.
Though as someone with a sense of humor, I was horrified.:)
In general, I thought the "racist" analysis goes overboard. Society's decided stereotypes are funny. There wouldn't have been the same reaction if the accents/jokes were British/French/(insert W. European country)
Its a lowest common denominator humor - how much did they pay to be unfunny and promote sterotyping? Me no likey likey them either!
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