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Apple Pulls Latest Ad After Criticism Over Depiction of Thailand
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Aye. Apple shows that accepted that they were wrong and took measures to correct it. Good on them. Unlike the fanbois on this site victim blaming the Thai people for being offended by negative stereotypes.
Whenever I visit a foreign country and people learn that I'm from Texas: "Are you a cowboy?" Child please, the closest I've come to a cow is when I grill up some burgers.
Unless you have first hand experience, you don't know jack about people or places.
I think Apple has finally figured out that the very same bell tolls for the USA as well. While still relatively young American culture does not have any inherent statesmanship modules in it which explains the endless line of presidential assassinations/or attempts at assassinations.
Yes, indeed. Which I expect would be why "Apple worked with Thailand-based film production studio Indochina Productions on the video". Too bad it didn't work out for them.
Out of curiousity, did you watch the actual Apple 10 minute video, or just the Bangkok Post edit? They edited out 80% (including the whole point where they travel to Thailand because they aren't able to get the job done quickly at home) and don't present the same story, which is my main issue. It would be like if I took your response and did this:
They cut out the parts that made Thailand look good, which obviously means that the Bangkok Post has a thing against Thailand if you use their own logic.
It wasn't a perfect ad, but the Americans were the ones portrayed as less competent, while the locals were all presented as very competent, so the edit to remove that seems disingenuous, too.
Any country has enough variety that any ad featuring it is just going to be some shorthand caricature of it, but I do feel bad if the 10 minute video made anyone from Thailand feel bad. I thought it made it look like a cool place with at least one better factory than any of the ones I've worked in. But the 2 minute hack job video by the Bangkok Post just makes Thailand look bad, so I regret that Apple pulled the actual ad so that some people think the Post version is the actual Apple version.
And please don't take my example edit of your post the wrong way... I totally get your Texas comment... I'm from Canada and most of the foreign stuff filmed here either shows wilderness, polar bears, or moose. I have no experience with any of those (okay, fine, I once almost hit a moose while driving through the wilderness, but I live in a fairly large city by our standards and have only seen a polar bear at the zoo). If they do film in the cities here, they usually just pass it off as the USA. I also do not live in an igloo nor fart like Terrance and Phillip, but even we blame Canada. Sorry, we do indeed say sorry a lot, though. Sorry.
Because of the difference in currencies, US tourists can actually get really nice hotels for the same money you'd pay for a crummy motel in America.
Have you been? Because as a Western tourist there’s very little reason why you should stay in a hotel like that. Also the airports were very well maintained and aren’t at all what’s being depicted.
Actually, I got the impression that is pretty much the joke of the entire video series. The characters are not exactly depicted as particularly adept and are even called "The Underdogs". I think that is supposed to be a clue, but maybe I'm reading too much into it and should be looking for more hidden clues, rather than the obvious. Occam's razor is apparently just passé in the 21st century.
And can y'all stop deciding/complaining about what folks who had to (or still) live under western colonialism/supremacy get offended by ... your days of oppression are over, but not everyone got that memo (seems it's one "group" that is whinny about "woke")
Horses?
I didn't know Thailand was western colonized. Have you told Thailand? I don't think they would like that.
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If anyone wants to be offended they should take their ire out on the creators of the prescription medicine ads on US television, such as the idiotic one with the happy office workers singing and dancing about their A1C levels. Crap like that is one more nail in the coffin of the dumbing down of America. It is also one more example of evidence about how medicine in the US is so f..king overpriced.
I've been twice, yes. I've stayed mostly in Airbnbs. I didn't have any issues at the airports (airports all kind of run together to me, to be fair), but certainly experienced chaotic roads and cramped transportation.
that’s very far fetched - I would say the removed it and sent a marketing reply - hard to believe that they really regret it other than spending the money for the useless ad
no - wasted money
not the Thai people but the minister that blackmailed Apple
agreed. I had been twice to Thailand on business trips - the ad was spot on and funny - for me
I've talked with native Japanese people and they've told me Americans have offended them by creating weird contraptions like the sushi donut and adding incredibly awful ingredients to sushi.
Ok, it doesn't apply to you.
And it doesn't automatically make them right.
That would imply intention to bring down that someone, opposite of what Apple's intentions are. That example doesn't work.
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The Bangkok Post wanted clicks, they got clicks. Meanwhile a video touting the manufacturing prowess and expertise at scale of Thailand is removed from wide distribution.
I have, as well. I've even had my luggage misplaced at airports and unintentionally booked myself into some rather terrible hotels in North America. It is impressive that this apparently never happens in Thailand.
And the edited version of the Bangkok Post is the only example remaining and it just shows the parts they don't like. It is like throwing out all your good travel photos so you can just keep the bad memories.
The modern surgery trend appears to be removing your nose to spite your face.
He didn't build it, he just added straw. That's how sarcasm works.
The 2020s are all about taking good ideas and breaking them with ridiculous extremes.
Or... Apple accepted that their ad was attracting criticism, decided it wasn't worth fighting for, and gave up.
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The Executive Hotel they stayed in looked very nice.
Or are you referring to the Sunrise Paradise Resort that the Bangkok Post featured in their edited video? The unedited Apple video showed that they didn't actually stay in the Paradise, as their more competent coworker booked them rooms at the Executive Hotel after they saw the Paradise.
Funny that the Bangkok Post worries about Apple misrepresenting Thailand, but doesn't worry about itself.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to tell that to the person to whom I was responding, as they seem to think Thailand was a western colony?
My sarcasm should have been fairly obvious, unless you truly actually only read that one sentence that you quoted from the middle of my post, which is a really weird place to start and stop. The words that immediately followed: "Have you told Thailand? I don't think they would like that." should really have given it away without me having to add /s.
But thank you for so succinctly illustrating my main complaint/point... that leaving out over half of another party's words can be a complete misrepresentation, exactly like the Bangkok Post posting a video that edited out the entire point of Apple's video.