Just when the three squirrels and Mercedes-Benz that were involved in the controversy of “squinting” in insulting China have not yet subsided, Coca-Cola also triggered an insulting lawsuit against China.
According to pictures posted by netizens, the pattern on the cans launched by Coca-Cola is a tiger based on Chinese painting. The tiger opened his mouth and smiled, and his eyes were naturally drawn with “squinted eyes”. The package was immediately posted online by netizens and criticized Coca-Cola for insulting China.
Some netizens posted pictures of tigers on Coca-Cola’s official Weibo, saying that “the real tiger looks like this”, “it seems that you can only drink Pepsi”, “the first shot of Coca-Cola insulted China in the new year”, and “the tigers are all made by you. Squinted, have you asked Tiger for his opinion?”
Many netizens also disagree: “Sorry, the Chinese have already exterminated the tiger. This is the biggest insult to China. The South China tiger is the ancestor of the tiger and has been completely extinct by the Chinese. The so-called Siberian tiger is actually the Siberian tiger. , From the Far East of Russia. They have tried their best to protect the Siberian tigers since the Soviet era. Now they flee to China and buckle the hat of the Siberian tiger and become a Chinese tiger. “?”, “This is too low self-esteem”, “After all, it’s just that they don’t like small eyes, but in order to be able to insult them openly, they must put on an insulting hat.”
Recently, the controversy of humiliating China due to “squinting” has occurred continuously.
An advertisement released by the Chinese food e-commerce company “Three Squirrels” in 2019 was revealed two years later. The female model in the advertisement has small eyes and raised eye corners. Some people say that advertising with small-eyed models is a “deformed product” and “discomfort to look at. Others criticize advertisers for “worshiping foreigners” and even “humiliating China.” In just a few days, related topics frequently appeared on Weibo hot searches. , Many posts have been read in the hundreds of millions, and some have attracted tens of thousands of people to join the discussion. It has also continued to ferment on other social media platforms such as Zhihu.
The model involved with the Weibo account named “Cai Niang Niang” responded after facing a lot of insults and said: “The eyes really look like this. Because of my personality and acting style, I was selected as the advertising model. I didn’t deliberately do it. What kind of humiliating image are we going to create.” She also asked, “I don’t deserve to be a Chinese because of my small eyes?”
“Does that mean that you shouldn’t choose the profession of modeling? If you are like this, you will insult China on the day you were born? Can you also sue you for discrimination? I support my country with my patriotism! Go online, then this is a morbid condition!”
The car brand Mercedes-Benz has also been involved in the recent controversy. The advertisement for its latest model was shot by a model with small eyes, which also caused a lot of dissatisfaction among netizens.
In response, The Epoch Times quoted Li Yuanhua, an associate professor at Capital Normal University, as saying, “Such so-called insults to China have occurred many times. For the CCP, it is good at using various incidents to incite fanatic national sentiments.”
“On the one hand, the CCP hopes to use this incited mass movement to show the illusion that it is still supported and supported by some people in the country. It is actually a manifestation of the CCP’s guilty conscience.”
“In addition, the CCP hopes to use this kind of mass movement to beat those foreign businessmen or entertainers who do business in China, to succumb to the CCP, or to become the CCP’s platform on international issues.”
Li Yuanhua believes, “These so-called insults to China reflect that the CCP’s current spirit is particularly fragile. Because the CCP virus has spread to the world, countries around the world have become more and more aware of the nature of the CCP. The CCP knows that it has spent a lot of money internationally. The image has collapsed.”
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