No that is you denying that racism is as bad a thing as it is.
no - i agree racism exists, it is very bad, i do not believe i am racist (so find it hard to understand why others are).
the point i was making is that the ad was made in australia, for the australian market, using australian humour, portraying the wi crowd as they actually are at crickets games (if you have ever seen them) and turning it into a humorous situation.
if the west indians see the ad as racists then fair enough, because it is their culture that is being portrayed. yet we are yet to hear anything from the west indians. perhaps that is because they share a similar british based humour and find the ad funny. what i find irritating is the americans sticking their boot in.
the americans are turning something that has "absolutely nothing" to do with them into a personal affront.
my point is that a portion of the american population appears to think the world revolves around them and cannot seem to grasp that not everything is about americans. they have a different culture,humour (i will not use the word wit because they do not have one), sense of irony and history than ours and the west indians.
it is one reason the americans do so poorly in prolonged theatres of war - because they try to impose their way of life onto the occupied countries rather than accepting that other peoples do things differently and assisting the locals to rebuild in their own manner and culture.
to use examples of shapelle corby et al as a comparison or australia being unreasonable about other countries is incorrect (imo). britt and shapelle are australians, the cases were about australians and had something to do directly with australia. i do agree that the local media slagging was inappropriate and wrong ... but the cases did relate directly to australia. what american is doing would be the same as our media slagging off about an ameican comedy movie portraying a hispanic as the bling covered drug lord (oh, whoops, they do that all the time!).
for the history buffs. the west indian africans were bought to the west indies as slaves by the british, from africa to work in the sugar cane etc plantations. some may have escaped from american hundreds of years ago, but the majority were transported over, in horrific conditions, under british rule.