Can Lufthansa AIrlines take off its ad please?
Dear Lufthansa Airlines,
Can you please take this ad off air?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrYhrZ3ppik
It is the most irritating and stereotypical ad that I have seen in the last few days. I know it is an old one but I have begun to notice it off late whenever I switch on the TV!!
It is grating on the ears and soul. It is ironically titled the Indian heart. Oh yes the Indian heart is stereotypical. How wonderfully an Indian Grandad teaches his son a life lesson on another culture and country - the Germans! Note the wry expression and the grimace. Ad the young mind laps it all.
To his surprise he finds very friendly staff (sic) and even Indian food (sic sic).
The justification is that we are very sentimental people - we never take the 'Indian' out of us where ever we go. So only when we get Indian food even on a German airline are we happy! And this reminds us of the eternal Indian traveller who wants to travel every nook and corner but expects that land to stock his dal-roti-chawal , dahi and pickle! For us Indian snobs our food is the best so we shall not even bother to taste anything foreign and even if we do we turn our superior noses down on it. After all we need to stew, steam and fry the meat, fish veggies etc in masalas and oil.
The grandfather comments in the ad how Germans are. I am imagining a scenario if ever an ad comes out in a country where we (Indians) are stereotyped, we would have taken the issue to the UN!!!
So is Lufthansa mocking us actually?????
Can you please take this ad off air?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrYhrZ3ppik
It is the most irritating and stereotypical ad that I have seen in the last few days. I know it is an old one but I have begun to notice it off late whenever I switch on the TV!!
It is grating on the ears and soul. It is ironically titled the Indian heart. Oh yes the Indian heart is stereotypical. How wonderfully an Indian Grandad teaches his son a life lesson on another culture and country - the Germans! Note the wry expression and the grimace. Ad the young mind laps it all.
To his surprise he finds very friendly staff (sic) and even Indian food (sic sic).
The justification is that we are very sentimental people - we never take the 'Indian' out of us where ever we go. So only when we get Indian food even on a German airline are we happy! And this reminds us of the eternal Indian traveller who wants to travel every nook and corner but expects that land to stock his dal-roti-chawal , dahi and pickle! For us Indian snobs our food is the best so we shall not even bother to taste anything foreign and even if we do we turn our superior noses down on it. After all we need to stew, steam and fry the meat, fish veggies etc in masalas and oil.
The grandfather comments in the ad how Germans are. I am imagining a scenario if ever an ad comes out in a country where we (Indians) are stereotyped, we would have taken the issue to the UN!!!
So is Lufthansa mocking us actually?????
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