Cenk Uygur
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Controversial Super Bowl Ad by VW
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February 1, 2013
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4:41Now Playing"Jamaica is embracing a controversial Super Bowl commercial that depicts a white office worker from the U.S. Midwest feigning the Caribbean island's lilting patois accent to display a cheerful, upbeat outlook.
Some U.S. critics have described the pregame Super Bowl ad from Volkswagen of America as offensive and culturally insensitive, apparently seeing the commercial that hit the web on Monday as an echo of segregation-era depictions of white people posing as happy-go-lucky black folk. Jamaica's population is predominantly black."*
Many called a Volkswagen Super Bowl ad featuring midweaterners with patois accents racist, but Jamaicans say there's nothing wrong with it. Are people too quick to call the ad racist? Does this show an innate misunderstanding of nationality and race? Ana Kasparian and Desi Doyen (Green News Report) break it down.
*Read more from David McFadden/AP via Huffington Post:
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