Monday, August 18, 2008

Oulsham Is Just Like People From China?

So there's this Oreo Cookies commercial with a red-haired, low-melanined little girl. She is obviously American. She is sitting with her equally low-melanined American mom on a train. On the next train is a Chinese girl. She is probably from Los Angeles but the good folks at Oreo Cookies would like us to believe she is from China.

Lo and behold the ignorant, culturally challenged low-melanin American girl is shocked! Shocked I tells ya! To learn that this Chinese girl makes silly faces, breathes air, sits on trains, looks out windows and eats cookies too!

What is most fundamentally insulting about this commercial is the fact that there is a strata of our culture who believes that the rest of us would find it hard to believe that Chinese girls are not so different than girls who are not from China (or Los Angeles).

Things I am tired of:

1. Racial stereotypes in the guise of re-educating the masses about multi-cultural ism.
2. People who have spent their lives learning everything they know about cultural differences from television, movies and insulated college professors relentlessly teaching those of us who have lived our lives in the actual, multi-cultural world about the differences between people.
3. People who confuse race with culture and then open their mouths and allow their stupidity to dribble out.

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