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posted by [identity profile] tevere.livejournal.com at 11:22am on 08/02/2009
In Indonesia there used to be a brand of toothpaste called 'Darkie' -- because, geddit, black people's teeth look really white! A few years ago someone in marketing clued up and changed it to 'Darlie'... but left the logo, a caricature of a grinning black man in a top hat, as it was. Nobody I polled seemed terribly concerned about it, and some even took it as an opportunity to warn me against the 'Nigerians' (common belief seems to be that all Africans in Indonesia are from Nigeria), who would steal my money and sell me drugs...

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