Its understandable though, how would you react if a Mexican ad depicted Jewish Americans using the worse possible stereotype. Its the same reason many blacks are objecting to that nasty Mexican comic, http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/09/mexican.comic/?iref=hpmostpop
In other words its feeding prejudice and stereotyping. > Israeli TV Ad Spoof of Oil-Rich Arabs Fuels Saudi Anger > > Saudi Arabia is not laughing at an Israeli television commercial and > has threatened to boycott the Nissan car company if it does not cancel > its commercial spoofing oil-rich Arabs. > > The Russian-language Israeli advertisement shows viewers wealthy Arabs > as being furious over the Nissan car because of its relatively low use > of gasoline. A Saudi official told a television interviewer that he is > demanding that Nissan apologize for the commercial or face a boycott. > > http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/151045 > > Saudi Arabia is, of course, the one people think of when they think > oil rich Arabs. At least they're the first name that pops up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:265418 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
