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An Old Italian Detergent Commercial

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发表于 6-7-2016 13:58:36 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
时事大家谈: 各类抄袭成风,中国创新路在何方? VOA Chinese, June 7, 2016
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... ergent/3365090.html
("然而在一片 [racist] 争议声中,也有网友发现,这则广告与一个数年前意大利洗衣液广告的情节、音乐都如出一辙,存在抄袭的嫌疑")

My comment: The quotation is conclusory, without offering any evidence to support the argument that Chinese somehow found the Italian commercial -- and when.
(a) Ellie House, Most Racist Advert Ever Take Two – Italians Trump Chinese with 'Coloured Is Better' Campaign; Chinese soap powder advert that 'cleans up' a black man was bad enough but now the Italians have a colour detergent that transforms a white man into a black hunk. Scottish Daily Record, May 28, 2016.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/new ... -ever-take-8069022#
(b) You Thought the Chinese Advert Was Racist… Wait Until You See the Italian Commercial That Inspired It. Daily Mail, May 28, 2016
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ ... rt-inspired-it.html
("The advert has been reported as a copycat of the Chinese commercial, but if anything it must be the other way around as the Italian ad can be traced back to at least 2006")
(i) "a ripped muscly black man * * * a black man with rippling 涟漪 muscles"
(ii) ripped (adj): "informal Having well-defined or well-developed muscles; MUSCULAR"
www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ripped
(A) The verb rip itself does not have this meaning.
(B) I search high and low, but can not find etymology of "ripped" in this sense.




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