Coca Cola big game Super Bowl chase ad criticized. (Ad resized)
Photographer: cokechase.com screen shot
Posted: 01/31/2013
Move over Volkswagen, Coca Cola is now coming under criticism for an ad which it plans to air during the Super Bowl.
According to Reuters, Arab-American groups dislike the ad which shows an Arab walking through the desert with a camel.
"Why is it that Arabs are always shown as either oil-rich sheiks, terrorists, or belly dancers?" Reuters quoted Warren David, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, as saying.
Earlier VW was criticized for a commercial which depicted a white man using a Jamaican accent. Some called it offensive and culturally insensitive,
However, the Associated Press reported that The predominantly black country of Jamaica is embracing the controversial Super Bowl ad
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