The 'Keep Burberry British' campaign

[FLMountainMan]

Originally Posted by Violinist

I have to agree.

I'm from South Africa, and I'm white. My family's history there goes back like 300 years. If there's one thing we're sensitive to is rhetoric where racial matters are concerned. "Blacks" is a word you'd maybe here in Transvaal or somewhere else up north where the less "civilized" white people live. It's a word they use because they can no longer say kaffir or "*****r". Calling them blacks is fairly backward. If you say black people, I don't think anyone is going to have a problem with that. But you might as well have just said pigmys.

I stand behind the content of vanity's arguments, but even as a fairly unpolitically correct person, you have to show some basic level of respect for people.

Would you be bent out of shape if he said "a bunch of whites"? Or even "a bunch of rednecks"? Should the rugby team change their name now?

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by Joel_Cairo

This was my point, the black guys are a group of adjectives: "blacks", while poles or people of asian heritage are nouns, "dudes", with an ethnic adjective qualifying them. So if you "call em like you see em", you see black people as somehow unworthy of a noun of their own, but instead wholey defined by their visual attributes?
to be fair, a bunch of Polishes brings up images of sausages at a football game and a bunch of Chineses doesn't really work. We use Jews, Christians, Muslims, Americans, Italians, Koreans etc, but say French Dudes, Japanese Dudes etc because of the way the words are spelled.

I find a lot of what he said odd, but not this part.

 

[skalogre]

Originally Posted by iammatt

to be fair, a bunch of Polishes brings up images of sausages at a football game and a bunch of Chineses doesn't really work. We use Jews, Christians, Muslims, Americans, Italians, Koreans etc, but say French Dudes, Japanese Dudes etc because of the way the words are spelled. I find a lot of what he said odd, but not this part.
One that really pisses me off is "Greeks." Damn fratties. If you are unable to use the word malakas in every other sentence syntactically and grammatically ok, you cannot call yourself that.

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

Originally Posted by vanity

When you walk into Bloomingdales and see a group of the walking dead wearing Burberry patterened 1-piece jumpsuits, browsing for more Burberry, it's safe to assume anyone witnessing this dibacle would never, ever purchase that brand again. It's not that zombies ruined Burberry, the undead culturecheapened it. Their hilariously awful knockoffs mixed with the pieces they actually can afford only heightens how terrible it is. I personally think that pattern is hideous to begin with and when I see some cadaverous cannibal wearing Burberry do-rag next to a businessman holding his Burberry umbrella, I can't help but laugh. Burberry is the epitome of "necromancy"

fixed it for you

 

[Toiletduck]

Originally Posted by skalogre

One that really pisses me off is "Greeks." Damn fratties. If you are unable to use the word malakas in every other sentence syntactically and grammatically ok, you cannot call yourself that.
Malakas Can't you add malakas anywhere and make it sound ok? heheheh

 

[Violinist]

Originally Posted by FLMountainMan

Would you be bent out of shape if he said "a bunch of whites"? Or even "a bunch of rednecks"? Should the rugby team change their name now?

No, I wouldn't have been bent out of shape if he said that because let's face it, my whiteness is hardly something that works against me, and has not been the object of scorn like others ethnicities have in the past.

I think red knecks are funny. I just object to saying "blacks" because of where I'm from and how it sounds to me. That particular word has a very ugly ring to it and when there's a nicer alternative (that isn't the rediculous "African American"), I think one should use it.

 

[vanity]

Black Doodz

 

[LabelKing]

Did you attend this low-key wedding? I hear they had Cristal-light.

 

[vanity]

THERE! SEE! That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about but with Burberry!

 

[LabelKing]

 

[Toiletduck]

rofl...do they use these cars after the wedding too?

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Did you attend this low-key wedding? I hear they had Cristal-light.

OH! The Humanity!

Jon.

 

[StevenRocks]

Originally Posted by vanity

THERE! SEE! That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about but with Burberry!
So one couple's unfortunate bad taste in wedding themes somehow proves that an entire race of people has ruined status brands? Give me a break.

 

[Rampart]

I've noticed that alot of Burberry lately is either made in the USA or UK. Does anyone know if they still make items, such as shirts, jackets, etc in Italy any more? I know they make ties there still..


Ram

 

[Nantucket Red]

Burberry is a dead brand as far as I'm concerned. Its ****-brindle check is a real eyesore.