It’s even more consistent with being stuck at the wrong end of the stand. The US doesn’t really have a tradition of travelling with it’s teams AFAIK so you also may not be aware of how common this idea is in most of the rest of the world. My small country has sometimes up to 10,000(more if we get to the world cup) supporters who travel with the team(soccer) when they play abroad. People move around the country all the time to follow their team.
The idea of being stuck in the opposing team is a very familiar theme.
That, the fact that the ads are about a guy using KFC to make his enjoyment of viewing cricket increase and that there is no negative issues with Windies supporters, to exact opposite in fact, makes most of us just see an ad with a Aussie and Windies supporters. Nothing more.
Not much point in the above I know as it took you three pages to accept that people can easily differentiate who was supporting who even if the ad makers casted white people as black Caribbean’s
The fact that you have to ask pretty much sums up this entire thread. You don’t have a damn clue what you’re talking about, and you’ve been told a hundred times that pretty much everything you’re saying is idiotic. Still you continue to preach idiocy, like a priest telling his followers the world is flat while a sail disappears over the horizon in the distance.
Isn’t it up to you to demonstrate it is racially motivated? Or is the presumption one of racism?
I’m serious about the offer in the last post. Find me a pattern of what a reasonable person would call racism in KFC Australia advertising and dinner is on me. We can hash the rules out, as long as the definition of racism isn’t “it could be racially motivated, so let’s assume it is.”
You have said that you are pretty sure that it was racially motivated. Given all the good points about non-racial reasoning, is it only your gut feeling that convinces you of secret motives? An abiding conviction that there are always sinister motives?
As yojimbo said “differing opinions” doesn’t mean it’s a wash. Your opinion seems rooted in an automatic assumption of guilt.
I would just like to point out that this has been a great thread in spurring some self reflection. In seeing FinnAgain and Fear Itself so steadfast and cocksure of their opinions in the face of completely overwhelming evidence against, it has made me wonder if I come off in such a way when arguing my opinions.
You are so big on the AD being racist, so YOU should NOT make comments like that. Don’t like it, don’t do it… Ever heard about the guy in the glasshouse throwing stones?
I’ve missed quite a few pages because it’s gotten so long but what about the fact that KFC is an American company and the ad was made by a U.S. based company? Yeah, it was made for Australia but they had to know how bad this would look once it got out, as these things invariably do.
I’ve been trying very hard to ignore this thread because of the sheer futility of it all. Sure, we in Australia (and likewise the rest of the world) have been inculcated to a great extent with American values and attitudes, but we also have some of our own that are actually unique and cannot be easily transported across national lines, believe it or not. :rolleyes:
You in the US have the Great Unspoken Fried Chicken and Watermelon Stereotype. Imagine if you will a slightly different scenario:
Mick is sitting in the stands watching Australia bat against the Tourists, surrounded by a group of noisy and gregarious Windies supporters. The current test series is being sponsored** not** by KFC, but by De Bortoli Wines. In an attempt to get the crowd to shut the fuck up, he produces a cask of wine from under the trestle-seat and presents the goon in an act of bon-homie to his immediate (black) neighbours.
How would those of you in the US view this act in terms of being immediately and blatantly racist?