Did you all see this? Whopper Virgins

Is this a joke?

These people have never heard of a hamburger (an American phenomenon??? Please.) yet the tester states they buy them at least 15 minutes from where they live.

And they just happened to show up in their native Sunday dress finery to eat the hamburger they've never heard of?

Do they avert their eyes when they walk by the stores?

I guess American fast food conglomerates need to hunt every last person down on the planet to make sure they can help destroy what's left of their local culture.

Just say no to corporate über-processed food product.

 
I found it demeaning as it makes fun of other cultures with a we're superior attitude.

Eat our processed junk and you'll be cool like us!!!

 
I thught it was entertaining. Loved seeing the villages and costumes, and didn't feel the attitude

was demeaning. This is the first of these commercials I have seen -- I would agree that you can't do many of these. Just the mass of infomercials the networks are filling their time with is very annoying to me.

 
That's it, exactly. A professor from Antioch University sent me the link and said they

could spend an entire quarter on everything that's wrong with that video.

To me it, it's a stark example of capitalist colinization. Attempting to infiltrate a totally new demographic for profit. This modern day example reminds me of Spanish explorers in Latin America and Europeans in Africa.

 
Pat, I enjoyed seeing the native dress too. Watching them wrestle with the different ways

to eat a burger, I can't help but think of how I must look when I'm traveling...and trying to navigate the local food.

Sheeh...it happens even here in the US! I was so overwhelmed the first time I tried to order a drink at Starbucks, I walked up to the counter and ordered the default...a Coke. LOL! When they told me they didn't sell coke, I was flummoxed, couldn't make up my mind and left. (I later went to work for Starbucks and had a pretty influential career there, but I'll never forget my first experience.)

 
I enjoyed the ending where the participants then turned things around...

...and introduced the hamburger makers to their own culture.

As for the taste tests taking place within 15 minutes of a McDonalds or Burger King, I had the impression that they brought the people who lived in remote areas into the major city of their country to do the test.

I have no problem thinking that there are people who don't know what McDonalds is. Even where I live, northern Quebec, there are people who don't know what a Wendy's is, or a Jack in the Box, or an In-N-Out Burger, or a Taco Bell, or a Chili's, or an Outback Steakhouse, or, yes, even a Starbucks. I find myself explaining these concepts pretty frequently.

 
Can't even begin to express all the negative opinions I have on this. I wonder what Jay Leno would

have to say about it.

 
Maybe I'm a callous Yabo but I assumed it was all tongue in cheek with all

participants in on the joke. But then I was raised way before PC was even a concept.

 
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