3 July, 2005

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Malaysian authorities pulled Toyota ads featuring Brad Pitt because… he’s too good looking for Asians.

The country’s national news agency, Bernama, quoted the Deputy Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin as saying, “We canceled the ads because they were considered an insult to Asians.” Maidin also said ads featuring American celebrities “plant a sense of inferiority among Asians” and wondered why “we must use their faces in our advertisements? Aren’t our own people handsome enough?” There was no comment available from Pitt’s camp.

by Rajan R @ 9:00 pm. Filed under Malaysia

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  1. Simon World Says:
    July 5th, 2005 at 11:42 am

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