Just look at this Microsoft advert



The Polish version has the black man crudely photoshopped out. Well his head that is.

This isn't the first time adverts have had non-whites airbrushed out for Poland. The advertisers want to sell, and the story goes, non-whites don't sell in Poland.

There was a story a few years ago, some employees at a car plant in England, found themselves photoshopped out of a company photograph when it was used in Poland

The hand is identical in both pictures.

Not only racist but lazy.

Nah, they aren't being racists, are we suppose to show black people full stop in order to pander to the political correct?

Maybe the one with the black guy is the racist one. Exploiting him just to make MS seem like a politically correct organisation.

Or maybe it's just that people are more likely to buy a product if they identify with the people in the advert, and there aren't many black people in Poland. Mind you the other guy looks East Asian, and I wouldn't expect Poland to have a large East Asian population either. But I'm just guessing, I have no idea of Poland ethnic make-up.

well they're at least guilty of really bad photoshoping!

I think that is indeed racist.

I'm not sure where this should be ,here in the
News & Politics forums or in the Racism forums.
I am well aware if the ' human error' factor and also the 'make money with advertising ' way of doing business.
But IMO this sort of marketing mistake as it is called in the article should not even have ever happened for the simple reason that any company that is an 'equal opportunity' employer and have made profits all over the world should think that any One country should be 'catered' to in any way except advertising in that countries language.



From
livenews.com

I've heard of colleges photoshopping black people into photos to make themselves seem more diverse

I guess it goes both ways

Now I bet lawyers are trying to get ahold of that black guy and ask If he wants a lawsuit...