Tag Archive: orientalism

Aug 31

Shanghai Dreamers

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There’s some debate about whether the Christian Dior ad campaign Shanghai Dreamers is racist.  It depicts tall white models against a background of “identical maoist robots.”  I don’t really understand the debate.  Of course it’s racist. Most advertising is. When it’s not out-rightly racist, sexist, classist, ageist and/or homophobic it often implies it. The industry …

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