4 adverts that made us cringe

 Last week, we spent some time individually searching for ads that dissatisfied us, narrowing the ads down to local ads, as we wanted to base our project on Malaysian culture and society (because that just seemed appropriate. hehe) .

Here are four ads that made us cringe a bit.

This is CLEO magazine's online breast cancer awareness video starring CLEO's Most eligible bachelor 2009 Henry Golding.

This video educates young women on how early detection can save lives.

It does serve its purpose and is not bad although we feel having the male model is inappropriate due to the very sensitive and feminine subject matter, breast cancer.

This is a Hari Raya ad shown on TV3 in 2010.
Its resemblance to a Christmas commercial is just uncanny. The only difference is this santa is muslim and wears muslim attire and there is no rudolf!

The actual ad has been taken down from youtube, so here are some clips from the ad that made it to the news due to it controversial messages that offends non-muslims as well as chinese malays in this society. This ad aired on 8TV.

The ad basically shows a Chinese malay girl being loud, wearing sleevleless clothes and eating in a ramadan bazar. Later, the correct way to behave is also shown .

Another controversial ad. A dipawali ad by FINAS,  and its ironic how it offends indian malays themselves!

There is a scene in it where the Indian malay husband and his Muslim wife go to his parents house to celebrate this holy day. while everybody sits around to have lunch the wife awkwardly sits without eating and only eats when a neighbour who is also muslim walks in and says the food is made by her.
Does this mean a muslim is supposed to cook food just to cater to muslims on a dipawali open house? ridiculous.





-Maisha