Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy Out Of Website, Is That Racism Or Marketing?
August 25th, 2009 3:55 PM | by Christen da Costa | 5 Comments
For some reason Microsoft Poland seems to think that black people aren’t accepted in marketing campaigns. So much so in fact, that they’ve Photoshopped the black dude’s head from their US site with a white guy’s. And apparently they fell short on budget, because the intern that PS’d this thing forgot about the hand.
[via Engadget]
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Tags: Microsoft, photoshop, poland, US
sorry. its been ammended now… spew.
Well, it is not racism. Simply local marketing.
There are no black people in Poland so this ad would be irrelevant if you left the black guy in and it would look like another badly executed campaign that uses western assets.
Fist: There are black people in Poland!!!!!
Second: Then they are stupid since the other guy is Asian!
Yes there are black people, 0.001% maybe?? Central Europe is very homogeneous – almost all inhabitants are white, few Asian immigrants. Blacks are very very uncommon. We have one on TV news though :-) and I know one Cuban who lives in our town since 1980s.
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