New Burger King ad criticized as "culturally tone-deaf" {Gadling}

Dec 22nd 2008 5:36PM No, Mr. Hotfelder, it's more than just a commercial, especially if the U.S. and fast food world now believes that Hmong people are no more than the stereotype which the ad promotes...Hmong are nothing more than primitive "tribesmen" which you yourself seem content on perpetuating. The fact is that the very Hmong people in that commerical drives Toyota Tundras, and probably have cell phones, and indeed have seen and tasted the burgers which were readily available at the BK restaurant in downtown Chiang Mai, Thailand. Oh, there's also a McDonalds there too. Like BK, you might be surprised to know that some Hmong are professors at major American universities, web programmers for Google, aerospace ingineers for NASA, even a World Poker Tour champion, or a Super Delegate for President Elect Obama. Don't forget, thousands of Hmong Americans are BK employees in the U.S. A slight slap in their faces? It's not just a commericial, it's the kind of stereotype that literally feeds off the ignorance and bigotry of some narrow minded, and junk food eating Americans. And it's got a really bad after taste.