Quote Originally Posted by sycloneman View Post
While this spot may have not been in the best of taste and at his own peril, I don't see it as racist. I don't think the point of the message was to belittle China...did anyone get that from the spot? He was making a point based on what he sees. It had to do with China. Stupid? Perhaps. Not in great taste? Perhaps, but it was to make a point and in this way the music, background, girl on bike made it so he didn't have to lay all that out and take up more time...which in the ad world, is money.
An attempt to belittle China wouldn't be the only way this add could be considered racist.

An actress with broken English or a white man in blackface. What's the difference?