MS, and goofy looking oriental chicks
http://sweepstakesonline.com/macoffice/
This wasn't the only one I've seen in an ad lately. What's with the idea of goofy looking oriental chicks as the embodiment of the "creative" type? There have been a few monster ads, and a really dumb ad for a YAHIS*.
I think it's supposed to make me feel too normal to use a mac.
* YAHIS: Yet another home improvement show. Cousin of YASADM, yet another show about dumb motorcycles.
This wasn't the only one I've seen in an ad lately. What's with the idea of goofy looking oriental chicks as the embodiment of the "creative" type? There have been a few monster ads, and a really dumb ad for a YAHIS*.
I think it's supposed to make me feel too normal to use a mac.
* YAHIS: Yet another home improvement show. Cousin of YASADM, yet another show about dumb motorcycles.
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Yet they can't use black people in the ads. That won't sell to the white rich people. The same with hispanics. Can't be hispanic or black and STILL look like you are modern and avantgarde and yabbayabba.
Thus the only option they have to look avantgarde and to sell to white people too (and others) is to use some asianish but not too visibly asian people in the ads.
Asian chicks are hot. In glasses. But not her.
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This is serious right? It's not just Spliney having a lend of me?
Doesn't Slashdot have a whole anime section? There something about geeks and geeky hot Asian chicks. Maybe just because geeky hot Asian chicks, unlike other kinds of geeky hot chicks, actually exist outside of movies.
where's tonton!?
Originally posted by ShawnJ
heh.
where's tonton!?
he's not asnwering because if he would answer in this thread, we would know he has been in appleoutsider, thus seen the other threads he can't find anything to add.
Originally posted by ShawnJ
heh.
where's tonton!?
You oughta talk you......you........you CANOODLER you!
(We know you're there tonton.)
I married and asian chick.
At least we know you have some good taste!
Originally posted by tonton
The girl in the M$ ad is not really my style. Too much makeup... ugh! Quite honeslty, I've never seen a girl in Hong Kong with THAT much makeup on. Seriously. She looks like Mimi from Drew Carey in that photo.
That's cos she still has to sell to US customers, not Asian Asians.
Ie. if this campaign was for UK, we would see Indian people in it. Cos they could be "enough Asian" = more localized chic for UK taste.
Originally posted by BuonRotto
That's Asian chicks, you insensitive goat!
Asian chicks are hot. In glasses. But not her.
I've fought this battle for a long time. . . Asia is a big continent. Beyond that, it actually refers to Turkey. So Indians and Turks, therefore, are Asians as well. I don't know what happened between 1989 and 1996, but sometime in there some Oriental clown decided that he wanted to take the name of the world's largest continent as the moniker for his ethnicity.
Now, Oriental just means "Eastern." It's a lot more flexible, and, I swear, if this comes up more I'm going to starting calling Orientals "Yellows," since for goodness sake, my skin isn't white, I'm called a white, Michael Jordan's skin isn't black, and he's called a black.
So that's the rant. She's a goofy looking Asian chick, yes, but more specifically she's a goofy looking Oriental chick. Beyond that, the point wasn't "why are Orientals in ads," so much as "why are 'creative' people typecast as goofy Oriental chicks, without reference to whether or not you married, befriend, or otherwise entertain some variant form of Oriental chick."
I suppose this was partially answered. Good enough. Carry on.
Morning sucks.
Looks just like the trowel-application cosmetics beloved of prepubescent girls. That, or she works for Cyndi Lauper/Mimi/Tammy Faye Bakker.
Stock photos have sure gone downhill.
Originally posted by Splinemodel
So that's the rant.
You know I was just razzing you, right? 8)
Originally posted by tonton
American Asians (especially Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean) DON'T like to be called "orientals". That's where the sensitivity comes in. If they don't like it, you shouldn't do it, regardless of the reason they don't like it.
Sensitivity?
It's ironic that a descriptive, non-derogatory term, which is actually more accurate, is somehow politically incorrect. Also, I don't believe that activists for certain groups have the right to suddenly proclaim a new and ambiguous name for themselves, and then rudely expect everyone to bend to their will.
It is far more rude for to demand that I use a different term.
Really, which is worse? Demanding that well-meaning people change their vocabulary to something ambigious, or to refer to a group of people in a commonly understood and non-derogatory manner?
[EDIT]
Thanks for the commentary on the meaning of Asian in the UK, I had no idea.
Back on topic:
Whew, that chic is 110% west coast, straight out of an oxygen bar. But what do I know, I've been stuck in Pittsburgh for a few years now.
Let's not forget that "chick" is likewise politically incorrect even though, IMO, it's a cute termof endearment. So Splinemodel must be doubly in troubly!
Ooh, I'm telling Gloria Steinem about this west coast oriental oxygen bar chick!