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Poland Advertising by MICROSOFT
... oops forgot the hand! Snapped!Humans are animals.Old. ACTUALLY, this was on TDWTF three years ago:

http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/13087/202923.aspx#202923

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Either those localising Microsoft's site for Poland felt that excessive racial diversity had no place in their homogenous country and would shock their customers, or wanted to further emphasize their inclusiveness by altering the IMAGE to portray a man with an enormously oversized head, a broken neck, and inverse vitiligo. As someone of Polish descent, I'd tend to prefer the latter, since at least it's creative and explains the bad photoshop job. But I'm not too optimistic.



I thought I had seen that several years ago.here's one of the responses on TDWTF that explains how it rascist, and how it's also not just appeasing to some sort of rascist Polish thing:

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Being Polish myself, all I can tell that Microsoft screwed lots of things doing this job, but replacing the face in question might not be one of them. Here in Poland, racial diversity is not as strong as in civilized areas of the world. Actually, there is none. All we got here are Commies, which come in red, of course. And there is only a few of them left. No Afro-Europeans. No Asians. Seeing PERSON of another colour of skin is still somewhat unusual, and, IMO, no wonder that someone at MS decided, that original image does not picture its target in this specific geographical region. Still, you could ask if it really matters. Or why they did not remove Asian guy. Or why there are no polar bears outside. Or why this image is photoshopped in so disturbing way. Just as a side note: some people might consider this as a racism, but I believe that it's not that. Polish people are just not familiar with variety of cultures, because there is really few people of exotic descent here in Poland. Seriously, just tell me by yourself: woud YOU like to come here? Yeah, I thought so. OTOH we think all your political correctnes, with all this avoiding colours, feminoamericans, "Baa baa black sheep" being banned from nurseries is really exaggerated. But still, I haven't been there. PS. As I mentioned before, English is not my native language. All spelling and grammar errors you found, you can keep them for yourself.
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All spelling and grammar errors you found, you can keep them for yourself.

Actually, we could tell that English was your second language, because you made fewer, if no, mistakes than most for whom English is the first language.

Interesting choice in the "global" marketplace.Quote from: Aegis on May 18, 2010, 07:20:44 PM
Actually, we could tell that English was your second language, because you made fewer, if no, mistakes than most for whom English is the first language.

Sad, but definitely true!!Most of us would not even notice.
But there were no blonds!
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Most of us would not even notice.
But there were no blonds!


If that had not supposed to make sense then you've succeeded!Quote from: reddevilggg on May 21, 2010, 05:02:23 AM
If that had not supposed to make sense then you've succeeded!
The term Blomds may refer to males with blond hair and related physical features. Especially in EUROPE. But the term often means either sex.
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Because of emigration and invasion from northern Europe, there are a number of blonds in Southern Europe and Eastern Europe. Due to migration from Europe from the 16th to the 20th centuries, blonds are also found all around the world such as in North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Siberia, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blond
The there are Brazilian Blonds in Bikinis... Let's not go there.

last time I checked blonds weren't a different race of people, therefore discriminaton based on that trait is not racist. I'm not sure what it is. Quote from: BC_Programmer on May 22, 2010, 08:17:32 AM
last time I checked blonds weren't a different race of people, therefore discriminaton based on that trait is not racist. I'm not sure what it is.
Citation needed.Quote from: Geek-9pm on May 22, 2010, 11:58:59 AM
Citation needed.

No, not really. the word "Racist" is evidently derived from the root word "race" and therefore it applies to differences of race.


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