Crude Cocktail of Ignorance and Bias
May 27, 2016 6:41 PM Subscribe
China and India have a huge problem with with racism toward black people.
The murder of Masonda Ketanda Olivier and a racist detergent commercial has drawn attention to problems of race relations in both countries.
Related:
Similar incidents examined
Africans speak out
Being Black in China also has its risks
Migrants have fought back in the streets and on youtube
Bonus: the Chinese ad is a role-reversal of this Italian ad
The murder of Masonda Ketanda Olivier and a racist detergent commercial has drawn attention to problems of race relations in both countries.
Related:
Similar incidents examined
Africans speak out
Being Black in China also has its risks
Migrants have fought back in the streets and on youtube
Bonus: the Chinese ad is a role-reversal of this Italian ad
This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't think this is framing that's going to lead to a constructive conversation. -- restless_nomad
Darkie brand toothpaste:
posted by XMLicious at 7:25 PM on May 27, 2016
Tangential to the subject of black people, Wikipedia has an article Graphic pejoratives in written Chinese which claims that the names of non-Han ethnicities/minorities frequently originally incorporated the characters for various animal names, but that this was changed in the course of language reforms in the 20th century....The packaging featured an image of a wide-eyed, smiling dark-skinned black male wearing a top hat, monocle and bow-tie, an image resembling minstrelsy.
In 1990, after Colgate-Palmolive acquired Hawley & Hazel, the English name of the toothpaste was changed to "Darlie", and the image on the packaging was altered to show a racially ambiguous face in a top hat to avoid racial misunderstanding. However, the Chinese name of the brand, "黑人牙膏" (in English, "Black Person Toothpaste"), remains the same, and a Chinese-language advertising campaign reassured customers that "Black Person Toothpaste is still Black Person Toothpaste".
posted by XMLicious at 7:25 PM on May 27, 2016
China and India have a huge problem with with racism toward black people.
So does North America, in case that wasn't painfully obvious.
posted by mhoye at 7:26 PM on May 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
So does North America, in case that wasn't painfully obvious.
posted by mhoye at 7:26 PM on May 27, 2016 [1 favorite]
OK that "Loneliest Man in China" article is something, he's all "I saw this racism in China, I saw that racism, horrible, horrible, BTW Chinese people are heartless and cold." I shall reread Windup Girl with a different eye next time.
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 7:36 PM on May 27, 2016
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 7:36 PM on May 27, 2016
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