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It's time for a History of Singaporean Chinese people in Brownface
2012 UOB bollywood-themed party https://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120212-327473.html
2012 UOB bollywood-themed party https://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120212-327473.html
2013, Wahbanana. The video is still live. This is one of Singapore's most popular youtube channels with over 1,200,000 subscribers; according to Forbes they charge $20,000–$50,000 for sponsored content
2015, Desmond Tan on his own Instagram feed https://sg.news.yahoo.com/mediacorp-actor-desmond-tan-does-090245163.html
2018, Singapore Sports Institute chief Toh Boon Yi at their Deepavali party https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2018/11/26/racist-or-not-netizens-divided-over-kacang-puteh-caricature-by-sports-sg-chief/
2019, epay – mediacorp and Havas... I'm too tired to go into detail https://www.marketing-interactive.com/mediacorp-and-havas-open-up-on-chastised-ad-with-actor-playing-different-races/
People have been making police reports over
@plspreeti's reaction to the above ad campaign
"The police will not tolerate any offensive content that causes ill will between races," the police said."
i am tired https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/police-looking-into-rap-video-by-local-youtube-star-preetipls-allegedly-containing
@plspreeti's reaction to the above ad campaign
"The police will not tolerate any offensive content that causes ill will between races," the police said."
i am tired https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/police-looking-into-rap-video-by-local-youtube-star-preetipls-allegedly-containing
If you'd like to learn more about other examples of racism in Singapore, or read old discussions and arguments that people have been having for decades now, here's an incomplete list I've put together (because people kept asking me "got racism meh?") http://visakanv.com/sg/examples-of-racism
"everyone on the @wahbananasg team thought seriously about this portrayal before we went ahead with it" https://www.facebook.com/ohaisaelis/posts/301559189973821
Freshly published by @kindnessSG:
"casual racism has always existed since our forefather’s time, and that’s okay."
"What, Munnaeru Vaalibaa was taken?"
https://pride.kindness.sg/preetipls-its-not-because-im-chinese/
"casual racism has always existed since our forefather’s time, and that’s okay."
"What, Munnaeru Vaalibaa was taken?"
https://pride.kindness.sg/preetipls-its-not-because-im-chinese/
tbh, I really appreciate it when folks like this just come out and say what they really think. it's quite refreshing
https://twitter.com/kindnessSG/status/1157225689084387329
https://twitter.com/kindnessSG/status/1157225689084387329
Thank you @kindnessSG for shedding some light on these dark times
This rabbit hole goes much, much deeper... https://twitter.com/sharanvkaur/status/1160216826770386944?s=21
