Hi Adam,
there is a half backed excuse now on their website:
http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/index_en.htm
Statement on the recent video clip released by DG Enlargement
<http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/press_corner/whatsnew/news/120306_en.htm>
06/03/2012 We have received a lot of feedback on our latest video clip,
including from people concerned about the message it was sending. It was
a viral clip targeting, through social networks and new media, a young
audience (16-24) who understand the plots and themes of martial arts
films and video games. The reactions of these target audiences to the
clip have in fact been positive, as had those of the focus groups on
whom the concept had been tested. The clip featured typical characters
for the martial arts genre: kung fu, capoeira and kalaripayattu masters;
it started with demonstration of their skills and ended with all
characters showing their mutual respect, concluding in a position of
peace and harmony. The genre was chosen to attract young people and to
raise their curiosity on an important EU policy. The clip was absolutely
not intended to be racist and we obviously regret that it has been
perceived in this way. We apologise to anyone who may have felt
offended. Given these controversies, we have decided to stop the
campaign immediately and to withdraw the video. Stefano Sannino,
Director General of DG Enlargement
intressting Focus Groups - What do they think of identification products
by design? Not by good politics?
wish you well
greets from Montreal
(kiilo) Tobias
On 09/03/12 17:34, Adam Thomas wrote:
> Seems the video got pulled a few days ago by the people who
> commissioned it. Ouch, it's really, really bad.
>
> On 09.03.2012, at 22:35, victoria sinclair <vickysinclair@???
> <mailto:vickysinclair@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> i dont know whether to be frightened, laugh, vomit or cry...surely
>> this needs to be flagged up-jobs be lost over this?
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:02 PM, stephen kovats <kovats@???
>> <mailto:kovats@r0g-media.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Wow! I just saw it ... and thought it was a spoof, until the
>> credits rolled ... It's really unbelievable.
>>
>> On 09.03.2012, at 14:13, Jaromil wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > This video is outrageous
>> >
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQREDQjfzC4
>> >
>> > Europe is depicted as a "good" woman that sieges and makes
>> disappear
>> > other ethnicities, but she is still very close from a soldier
>> beating
>> > them up, just trying to be politically correct on the surface
>> (certain
>> > uses gender issues in fact are used as a trojan horse since
>> long), but
>> > really is just a passive aggression.
>> >
>> > To save the decence they could have represented a peaceful
>> interaction
>> > within the circle at the end, but not: the foreigners disappear...
>> >
>> >
>> > This video promotes stereotypes against different ethnicities.
>> >
>> > Is this is what the small amount of cultural funding is being used?
>> > racist propaganda? I'm absolutely outraged.
>> >
>> > I'd like to sue those who aired it for racism, or whatever.
>> >
>> > I feel impotent and very very uncomfortable right now.
>> >
>> > This is not what I pay taxes for: being threatened and having
>> > different ethnicities represented as treats.
>> >
>> > what can we do? :^(
>> >
>> >
>> >
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