Grace Fu says she personally did not find anything problematic with “brownface” ad given the context
The Independent - Singapore·2019-12-11 19:03
Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Grace Fu, told a crowd of about 300 students yesterday (10 Dec) that she personally did not find anything problematic with the “brownface” NETS advertisement.
In July this year, an advertisement for the government-led NETS E-Pay initiative drew severe backlash since it featured Chinese actor Dennis Chew dressed as a Chinese man, Chinese woman, Malay woman and an Indian man. Chew wore dark makeup or “brownface” to portray an Indian man.
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Userf7cq 15/12/2019
Aiyoh! Here goes again! We all will turn to ashes eventually!!! And here you all still talking about colours lah! Grow up lah!
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Kwok Hing Yuen 14/12/2019
Better not use colour to depict others
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rega 13/12/2019
The problem is,you should have given all the race to be in the picture and not only Chinese guy to do the model picture, pls la as though not other races in Singapore.
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flashfire 12/12/2019
Big mouth talking nonsense again......
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furkid6pappa@9212 16/12/2019
YOU is the problematic,Grace Fu! Get a life will ya.
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