Ad on London tube outrages Italians ;)

[motoki]

www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5830613

Appparently, it caused and international incident with Italy. Sheesh, you'd think they could have just shown someone with smelly greasey fish and vinegared chips or something.

[Calislahn]

Ooops ;D

We don't all eat fish and chips you know

[Turjan]

The interesting thing is, the Italian Ambassador recognised enough "Italian" in the poster to be outraged by it....

So how does that reflect on how he himself perceives his own country, hmm?

[motoki]

Well apparently the meat and cheese products are Italian brands. I couldn't make them out from that picture, but I suppose the poster might be large enough that you could.

Anyway, I think one does not have to be a stereotype to recognize stereotypes of one's people.