Comments on: ‘Racist’ Nissan commercial angers Saudi Arabia

By: sublight

sublight — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:42:31 +0000

“Biting the hand that feeds you”? Just who’s doing the buying and who’s doing the selling here?

Japan needs oil, to be sure, but Saudi Arabia needs oil buyers just as much. And there are places close to Japan that produce plenty of oil (Russia and Indonesia, for example) and would be happy to sell if the Saudis decide to have a snit.

By: keep the ad

keep the ad — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:43:59 +0000

why should they remove the ad when it is commonly known and felt that average saudi is racist to all minorities in Saudi
they have enforced fuedal modern day slavery
no labour laws
no justice in traffic violations, all foreigners at fault regardless, women (half of humanity) have no rights
harsh punishment instant prison for minor violations
mistratement and sexual abuse of filipinos and maids
rape is a crime started by women their woerds
they are scum of earth to other muslims
i know personally many indians pakistanis africans philipinos not seen families for 6 years because employer wont let them leave
what kind of horrid arrogant inhuman scum are these

By: BDiego

BDiego — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:33:25 +0000

That was such a funny yet tasteless commercial.

By: Karakus

Karakus — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:14:29 +0000

and so I thing it’s successful commercial. and funny.

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:09:49 +0000

Actually I think the apocaplypse will be brought about by ‘tolerant’ ‘liberals’ who actually give these kooks the time of day and media exposure they so desperately crave.

By: mixzx

mixzx — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:47:51 +0000

The apocalypse is upon us, brought about by narcisists who demand apologies for silly cartoons and half-witted jokes. Take your pick: Arab, Japanese, American. It doesn’t matter. The catalyst for WW3 will be an off-hand remark from some Hollywood bimbo – a remark found offensive by a monkey sitting on a rock.

By: Karakus

Karakus — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:48:14 +0000

no it is not racist thing, it’s just a arab intolerant!!!

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Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:22:31 +0000

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By: leitmotiv

leitmotiv — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:59:43 +0000

Its gonna be a damn long time for so-called hydrogen cars, and they will likely fail overall – so you may want to pack a lunch for that.

Wow – jingoism, racism, and ignorance all in a one sentance post. How do you do it?

By: morningstar

morningstar — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:45:19 +0000

This is a over reaction.

By: Troy

Troy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:01:50 +0000

There is nothing racist about it at all. It must strike a cord of truth to get em upset in the UAE.

By: ダビ

ダビ — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:15:34 +0000

Not racist

By: Xacur

Xacur — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:04:33 +0000

What?? What is racist about that?
I think there are people who want to feel offended.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:20:33 +0000

Bwahahaha! Funny commercials are the best entertainment (and most effective marketing tool). But why was it in Russian???

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:15:06 +0000

It IS racist, no doubt about it. Think about where it was aired, who it was marketed to, and then try and tell me it’s not racist.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:33:28 +0000

Is this a Jewish stereotopical view to Arab?
Why don’t you blaim on Jew?

By: Karasu-kun

Karasu-kun — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:17:12 +0000

Who the hell cares, honestly. Not everyone in the middle east is an oil tycoon sheik, and that’s what the commercial is making fun of. It doesn’t come off as racist, and if it was a bunch of rootin tootin texans shooting off guns in the air and stomping on their 10-gallon hats, I’d say the same thing. Because guess what, I’m a white guy and I don’t dress like a cowboy nor do I sell oil, so I’m not getting pissed off at a commercial making fun of someone in the energy business. Just sounds like people are overreacting. And propaganda? Hardly. Maybe Israel and Japan are working together to cause a war in the middle east and then they’ll cause natural disasters with the secret weather machine being developed secretly under Tokyo’s labyrinthine subway system run by Benjamin Fulford!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:35:55 +0000

I don’t think Israel should exist…but getting off topic

By: Mary Witzl

Mary Witzl — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:26:29 +0000

This might not have been prudent, but I can’t see it as racist either. I agree with Cliff and NPC — you could have made the angry man a Texan and it would have gotten the same point across. The problem is that this was aired in Israel — that’ll get backs up for sure.

By: ZoneDaiatlas

ZoneDaiatlas — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:59:09 +0000

Arafat, is that you? I thought you were dead…

By: Raian

Raian — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:27:56 +0000

As has been said already, I agree with the fact that this commercial could certainly be offensive to ‘the oil barons’ but I fail to see it as specifically racist.

Granted they probably shouldn’t have had something akin to swearing in the commercial, however how many times have car companies introduced poorly translated model names etc into foreign countries.

This isn’t really so much about the commercial being racist as it is about offense being taken by something that could be funny if it had been presented better and had the other party had a modicum of good humor.

By: Dr. Pepsi

Dr. Pepsi — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:55:21 +0000

STEREOTYPING IS NOT ALWAYS RACISM.

By: pete

pete — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:31:21 +0000

there was a very similar print ad from volvo here in switzerland a few months ago: http://www.persoenlich.com/img/news/content/img254686.jpg

By: folosa

folosa — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:37:05 +0000

The commercial says just as much about Israel which is a racist apartheid state.

By: David

David — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:24:18 +0000

It just seems to be go ahead and bite the hand that feeds you because you don’t like the fact that you in fact are being fed at the good graces of your oil baron masters, much as you may not like it thems is da facts.

Time for the PM to do his heavy bowing facade and pretend apologies for offences take, figuratively slap the offending parties, etc. Pretend to be a civilized country. Japan has no choice.

By: cliffj

cliffj — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:57:24 +0000

I really think that ‘racist’ is tossed around far too lightly nowadays. This commercial isn’t by definition racist. It is however offensive and insensitive and it really wasn’t very prudent for a multinational corporation like Renault-Nissan to make a commercial like this.

It is absolutely hilarious though.

By: Neil Duckett

Neil Duckett — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:24:55 +0000

Nothing racist about it at all.

By: CaramelCoconut

CaramelCoconut — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:11:39 +0000

Wow…that WAS racist. First of all, he’s pretty much swearing in the video. Second, this is being aired on Israel TV makes it more of a propaganda video than a commercial.

By: ankoku

ankoku — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:00:48 +0000

@David: Yeah. And likely spark a war. I don’t care if Japan is not allowed to have a standing army. If they stopped selling oil to Japan for a COMMERCIAL I don’t think that anybody would stop Japan, and most likely a lot of people would jump on board. Because if they stopped selling oil to a whole COUNTRY because of one COMMERCIAL that made them angry, who knows what other stupid reason they would stop providing oil for?

Either way, that would never happen because they are greed bastards.

For god’s sakes people it is a COMMERCIAL. And maybe it’s only due to the fact that I don’t understand the language, however it doesn’t appear racist to me at all. Anti-big-oil-companies? Yes. Racist? No.

By: NPC

NPC — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:59:06 +0000

Stereotyping the typical-enraged oil tycoon? Maybe. But I fail to see anything “racist” pertaining to Saudi’s unless I’m missing something here. I’m open minded so if anyone wants to tell me how it is then please do.

The way I see it, they could do the same with the stereotypical Texas oil tycoon.

By: David

David — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:48:51 +0000

The Arab oil producing countries should boycott selling any oil to Japan. That would get the point across in a hurry.