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804641 2009-08-27 00:11:00 www.stuff.co.nz Scouse (83)
804642 2009-08-27 00:12:00 haha GameJunkie (72)
804643 2009-08-27 00:17:00 Actually I dont see the problem using the correct ethnic people for the correct country.
If it was the other way around there wouldn't be a murmur.
Its called targeting your marketing I really doubt there are many Africans in Poland
prefect (6291)
804644 2009-08-27 00:21:00 Im with prefect, don't see the problem personally.. :-/ Chilling_Silence (9)
804645 2009-08-27 00:33:00 Only problem I can see is I feel sorry for the guy & the guys partner (assuming he has one) - imagine one day being One race then the following being the another :D

Try and explain that one to the kids :lol:
wainuitech (129)
804646 2009-08-27 00:34:00 It's nothing new - marketing people photoshop stuff all the time. Just look at Helen Clark's photo on her election billboards. somebody (208)
804647 2009-08-27 00:36:00 [QUOTE=prefect;814001]...............................................
..............................I really doubt there are many Africans in Poland[/QUOTE

......or even in Arthurian Britain. If you ever see the BBC series 'Merlin', (it can be found online) among the villagers and extras there is a goodly proportion of black 'african' faces, even Guinivere.


This really is political correctness in extreme madness. It would seem productions, no matter what era or where it is set, or how unlikely, have to have a black quota.
Terry Porritt (14)
804648 2009-08-27 01:16:00 [QUOTE=prefect;814001

This really is political correctness in extreme madness. It would seem productions, no matter what era or where it is set, or how unlikely, have to have a black quota.

What you say is so true.

The boss in the background of USA detective series always has to be black,and sometimes a black woman,jolly irritating in its obviousness.
Cicero (40)
804649 2009-08-27 01:19:00 Nothing wrong with it at all.

People had issues with Battlestar Galactica because there were too few "black" people in it.

And he's McBlack: www.365black.com

Christ, if it was McWhite, there's be riots!
Cato (6936)
804650 2009-08-27 01:28:00 Used to be a word for it token ******. prefect (6291)
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