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The Racial Stereotypes Of The Pepsi Ad
The Pepsi commercial is about selling a soda, a coke, there's no real reason behind it. It begins insulting other cultures (as told by viewers on social media) by showing several racial stereotypes. Then, a white, famous, wealthy women, Kendell Jenner, comes out to stop a huge protest by giving the police officers a Pepsi. The SNL commercial makes fun of it, pointing out the ridiculesness of the commercial itself.
The satire in the SNL commercial points out the racist points of the Pepsi AD by talking about the racial stereotypes of the asian man playing chello and the african american men dancing to hip hop. It makes an even further joke about it, having the director being scolded for using those stereotypes. It then countinues to poke more
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