Gap Fill - Level 2

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   advertisement      attention      common      detergent      ever      honest      knowledge      machine      marketing      most      mouth      scene      sensitivity      shame      shower      social      viral      washing      websites      white  
There is anger on media because of an for a Chinese . Newspapers are saying it may be the most racist advert . The commercial was for the detergent company Qiaobi. In the ad, a young woman puts a detergent tablet into the of a black man. She pushes him into a washing , closes the lid and then turns it on. The next shows that the black man has turned . The woman looks happy when she sees the light-skinned man. The ad is a month old but went 24 hours ago. It was shared on social media.

Many are attacking the ad. The site Buzzfeed called it, the " racist ad of 2016". It wrote: "The commercial will likely leave you feeling like you need a ." One blogger complained that Chinese companies do not understand "the of racism". The blogger said it was a that racism was in China. Another blogger asked: "How can… people have no of racism?" The owner of Qiaobi told the BBC that he didn't realise the ad was racist. He said: "To be , I didn't really pay that much to the advertisement."

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