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Poland - Is it a racist country?
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Take a look at the two websites....
Default version -
http://www.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/default.mspx
Polish version -
http://www.microsoft.com/poland/businessproductivity/default.mspx
Both are excactly the same except that they removed the head of the black man in the polish version and photoshopped in a white guy’s head instead. They also forgot to remove the black mans hand
Such a poor effort.
Default version -
http://www.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/default.mspx
Polish version -
http://www.microsoft.com/poland/businessproductivity/default.mspx
Both are excactly the same except that they removed the head of the black man in the polish version and photoshopped in a white guy’s head instead. They also forgot to remove the black mans hand
Such a poor effort.
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Oh.. open two windows and flick between the two quickly, it's fun!
edit: It's okay I've decided the white guy's head on the Polish version is definitely fake, very odd angle & proportion & doesn't match his hand as the OP pointed out Someone do a screengrab quick
Actually you could say it would be rather arrogant if microsoft assumed that all countries in the world had the demographic of the US, presumably it's to avoid that assumption that they made the change.
That reasoning doesn't stick. I don't think there are many East Asians in Poland either, but the man on the left hasn't been edited out.
There's a quite obvious sociological reason why they felt the need to exclude the black man and not the Asian, but that's a great big can of worms which i can't be bothered going into.
The OP should have written: does MS think Poland is racist, or does Microsoft just think Poles are basically white.
Consider this: if there was no photo-editing, just a different picture of three 'Polish-looking people' sitting in an office, would you have the same objection?
I just tried that, he has a wobbly head
You've completely missed or ignored my point.
Using your logic of "There aren't many black people in Poland, it doesn't make sense to sell products on the basis that there are. " then the Asian man should also have been edited out. So your reasoning does not stick.
If it was "three Polish looking people" or they'd edited the photo to make everyone "Polish looking" then i wouldn't object. Demographic marketing is basic advertising and for that exact reason, the Asian man should also have been edited out.
There's more to this particular photo than relating the subjects to the audience. It's clear the issue seen by Microsoft's photo editor is a black man in the photo, and the audiences reaction, not they're not all Polish looking and the audiences reaction.
Either the editor made a blunder in leaving the Asian man in, or it was a concious decision to specifically remove the black man.
Why has Microsoft photoshopped this?
Obviously it's Microsoft's decision, where have i implied otherwise? Microsoft is exactly who i'm criticising.
Love it. hahaha
I went to Poland last year, and had a fab time, no problems whatsoever.
The only thing I can think of is that some of the children were fascinated with us, as they had clearly never met a real, live, black person before who wasn't on Polish MTV (which funnily enough had a black presenter at the time). But then that is how children behave when they haven't seen something before and not something that I would percieve to be racist. I know others may have had totally different experiences while there but I can only speak for me and I had no issues while there.
TBH- I think this says more about Microsoft than it does about Poland and its' people, and I think it's unfair to suggest that Poland is racist because of Microsofts' piss-poor marketing.
I mean look at the images, they didn't even use photoshop properly the new head is WAY out of proportion with the body. He's using a MAC computer, and still has a black hand!
I can't even take that shit seriously!
You can still see the altered version on bean's link (above)
See my post 25