Local station 8TV has come out with Ramadan advertisements that appear to be condescending to a particular race.
PETALING JAYA: A local television station has come out with Ramadan advertisements that appear to be condescending to a particular race.
Released as public service announcements (PSA) on YouTube, the 8TV advertisements depict a socially-inept Chinese woman embarrassing others at a Ramadan Bazaar.
Each PSA then comes with a moral lesson, with the woman instantly changing her ways to suit the advertisement’s message.
In one episode, the woman dressed in a sleeveless singlet openly showed her armpits to passers-by while she fiddled with a bunch of bananas. The armpits, however, were censored.
“Wow, I feel like I’m the centre of attention! I love it! And I love you all!” she says, as people around her avert their eyes.
The video is then slapped with a message that says: “Do not wear tight and revealing clothes.”
A few seconds later, the woman is then seen clad in a baju kurung, with a complete change of attitude.
A message that says “Do wear appropriate attire” then shows up on the screen.
Another episode shows the same Chinese woman eating cakes straight out of a hawker’s table, with the accompanying message: “Do not be greedy and eat in public.”
A third PSA highlights the apparent lack of manners, with the Chinese woman caressing a female seller’s arms, humming as she says: “I love you, makcik.”
Proceeding to slap a Malay male hawker selling watermelons on the shoulder, she then loudly exclaims: “Pakcik, ada diskaun kah? (Uncle, do you have a discount?)”
When FMT called 8TV for comment, a spokesperson said that the station would respond within a matter of minutes.
However, FMT noticed that the PSAs were removed from YouTube less than 10 minutes later.
(The user who originally posted the videos was known by the nickname “SanRandhawa”.)
Queried in a later call about the videos’ disappearance, the same spokesperson said: “We’re not very sure. Sometimes we get complaints from Facebook telling us to take off the videos.”
The spokesperson then declined any further comment.
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