Coke Super Bowl ad 'not racist': BeverageDaily.com readers
Asked the question, 'Do you believe that Coke's 2013 Super Bowl advert perpetuates a racist Arab stereotype?', 74% of BeverageDaily.com readers (71 out of the 96 who answered the polling question) said 'No'.
22.9% (22) said they did believe the advert - which shows an Arab leading a camel over the desert; you can view it here embedded within last Thursday's article - furthered such a stereotype, while 3.1% (3) were undecided.
Tired stereotypes...smacks of lazy advertizing: Scott-Thomas
Emma Hyatt posted a comment on our original article, which read: "There were a lot of stereotypes portrayed in that ad, none of which were offensive. They're funny. No one won or lost that race, the camel caught up in the end."
But my colleague Caroline Scott-Thomas, editor of FoodNavigator.com, believes the original critics missed a broader point. "It plays on a whole bunch of stereotypes - the 'cowboy code', the don't-play-by-the-rules badlanders, and the glamour girls. Milking tired stereotypes smacks of lazy advertising to me," she said.