Comments on: Actually Racist Thing of the Week: Chicken Commercials

By: White Dave

White Dave — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:19:11 +0000

Koreans are given some leeway in their ethnic stereotyping of black people, they don’t have the same checkered history as white people do (particularly Australians) with black people. The Aboriginies in Australia, African slaves in North America. Know what I’m saying?

By: Australians Fond of Chicken Stereotype, Part II | Ethnic Avenue - The Street That Crosses All the Others

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:22:04 +0000

[...] when you started to believe the excuses for the Australian KFC “crowd pleaser” commercial (e.g., that “not one person [polled] in Australia had any idea of the American stereotype of [...]

By: Ethnic Will

Ethnic Will — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:19:40 +0000

Editor’s Note: For the record, the “KFC” label affixed to the Korean commercial is not our own. It comes from the original host of the video.

By: Enzo

Enzo — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:04:49 +0000

To be precise, the Korean commercial is about Kyochon Chicken and not KFC.

By: Ethnic Will

Ethnic Will — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:41:04 +0000

To me, it’s all about the delivery. I can’t help but read into that Australian dude’s “tone.”

By: MAC

MAC — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:05:36 +0000

I don’t see anything wrong with either commercial. All the black people with the exception of 1 that I know, love them some fried chicken. *I’m* barely black and I love me some fried chicken.