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June 11th, 2003, 01:53 PM
Actual Article (http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3927722.html)
Has Anyone Asked Them?
Billboards in Minneapolis that make fun of everything from Sally Struthers’ waistline to Asian accents are drawing complaints from hyphenated Americans but generating business for their sponsors, reports the Star-Tribune.
Ads for fusion restaurant Chino Latino ("Third World Food, Sally Struthers Portions"; "Happy Hour: Cheaper Than a Bangkok Brothel") have drawn the ire of the "print-skirt, gauze-blouse, Birkenstock crowd," say Phil Roberts, chief executive of the company that owns the restaurant.
"There was a petition with a thousand signatures. There was an organized campaign to clog our cell phones," he said. "And business went up, by the way. Noticeably."
Another Minneapolis restaurant raised eyebrows with a campaign that some described as ethnic stereotyping because attractive Japanese women are pictured behind garbled English.
An Asian activist group said it was trying to get away from the stereotype of Asian women as sexy.
I REALLY want to draw attention to the very last line. That has be laughing.
Has Anyone Asked Them?
Billboards in Minneapolis that make fun of everything from Sally Struthers’ waistline to Asian accents are drawing complaints from hyphenated Americans but generating business for their sponsors, reports the Star-Tribune.
Ads for fusion restaurant Chino Latino ("Third World Food, Sally Struthers Portions"; "Happy Hour: Cheaper Than a Bangkok Brothel") have drawn the ire of the "print-skirt, gauze-blouse, Birkenstock crowd," say Phil Roberts, chief executive of the company that owns the restaurant.
"There was a petition with a thousand signatures. There was an organized campaign to clog our cell phones," he said. "And business went up, by the way. Noticeably."
Another Minneapolis restaurant raised eyebrows with a campaign that some described as ethnic stereotyping because attractive Japanese women are pictured behind garbled English.
An Asian activist group said it was trying to get away from the stereotype of Asian women as sexy.
I REALLY want to draw attention to the very last line. That has be laughing.