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Westham67 4:47 Tue Apr 9
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Please make it stop
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-47866381
Burger King has removed an advert which shows western people trying to eat a burger with oversized red chopsticks following criticism on social media.
The advert for a new Vietnamese burger in New Zealand has sparked a debate over whether the advert is harmless fun or culturally insensitive and racist.
A clip of the advert posted to Twitter by Maria Mo, a Korean woman living in New Zealand, has been viewed more than 2.9M times.
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In her subsequent thread she berates Burger King's attempts to make fun of how Asians eat and described the advert as racist.
She tweeted: "I'm so sick of racism of any kind. Of the kind that makes fun of different cultures. Say no to every single manifestation of it."
Others feel equally as strong: "I always thought that Burger King was better than KFC and McDonalds, but now I don't want to eat their products," wrote one disgruntled post on the Chinese micro-blogging platform Weibo.
Some on social media have likened this to the racism row faced by fashion house Dolce & Gabbana after they posted videos of a Chinese model eating Italian food with chopsticks in 2018.
Twitter user TatianaKing wrote: "I thought brands learned their lesson after the D&G chopsticks fiasco... then again I'm not surprised."
In China, the Burger King advert has been viewed more than eight million times on the news website Pear Video and tens of thousands of Weibo users have been posting about it. The hashtag, which translates as #NewBurgerKingAdvertAllegedlyRacist, has also been used more than 12,000 times.
Not all posts are critical, however. "Whatever anyone does, it's discrimination, we're bursting with persecution and paranoia. What can brands do in the future to introduce Asian elements?" asked one user who had sympathy for Burger King.
Another saw the funny side of the advert: "This is just a joke that westerners can't use chopsticks. Why is it only in recent years that we hear that Chinese people feel discriminated against? Am I meant to get angry?"
And others believe those who have been offended by the advert are sensitive and show that people in China have an inferiority complex.
Burger King has now deleted the clip which appeared on their Instagram account for New Zealand and has withdrawn the television advert. A spokesperson said: "The ad in question is insensitive and does not reflect our brand values regarding diversity and inclusion."
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fraser
4:53 Tue Apr 9
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More fucking madness.
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wanstead_hammer
5:00 Tue Apr 9
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Stop squinting you sirry irriot.
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Westham67
5:03 Tue Apr 9
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Ho flung dung
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Coffee
5:05 Tue Apr 9
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A whopping waste of outrage,
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geoffpikey
5:06 Tue Apr 9
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For FORKS sake!!
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Toe Rag
5:07 Tue Apr 9
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More racism
https://news.sky.com/story/waitrose-apologises-for-selling-racist-chocolate-ducklings-after-criticism-11688611
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Coffee
5:08 Tue Apr 9
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All around me are familiar burgers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZvPSpLxCg
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Westham67
5:12 Tue Apr 9
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Why no Burger Queen ? sexist as well racist
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Browno22
5:17 Tue Apr 9
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Burger kXng
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147man
5:19 Tue Apr 9
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Lacist
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geoffpikey
5:20 Tue Apr 9
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I once ate Wendy's.
Wasn't a long term relationship.
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cup of tea
5:23 Tue Apr 9
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Every fucking thing is racist these days, makes me sick. Waitrose had to apologise for selling chocolate ducks FFS
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Westham67
5:28 Tue Apr 9
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Westham67 5:12 Tue Apr 9
I apologise if I have offended any WHOers by the using the word "Queen" with gay abandon oops sorry again
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HammerTime78
5:30 Tue Apr 9
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Cup of Tea - Waitrose didn't HAVE to do a thing. That's part of the problem, the retailers/brands who are being accused of racism never, ever stand up for themselves and tell the accusers of being the silly cunts they are.
Somehow, this shit has to stop. Where are we going to be in 5,10, 20 years time? It's beyond fucking ludicrous.
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Westham67
5:36 Tue Apr 9
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HammerTime78 5:30 Tue Apr 9
True we are laughing at it but it is ridiculous
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Browno22
5:45 Tue Apr 9
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You are doing something wrong if you havent been called racist these days
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gph
5:57 Tue Apr 9
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I've been told by Indian people more than once that forks are unhygienic, because they are so difficult to clean properly.
I don't regard this as a racial slur.
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cholo
6:06 Tue Apr 9
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Good publicity stunt, I hadn't thought about burger King for ages.
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collyrob
6:08 Tue Apr 9
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I hear these stories all the time. Is there actually real people who complain? Anytime I see these articles every single comment is giving out about people trying to be offended. But not anyone who’s actually offended. I just don’t get it.
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geoffpikey
6:15 Tue Apr 9
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Any Italian outrage at the Whopper yet?
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