Advertisers: Stop the
whitening fetish!
Cathay Pacific
magazine: Halfway down – “fair face is the best canvas for any style”
The whitening craze in HK has hooked advertisers, with
products offering whitening this and whitening that. I can let this go up to a point, but when
Estee Lauder have a Chinese supermodel say a “fair face is the best canvas for
any style”, I question the company’s ethics.
Asian women should not feel that a natural darker skinned face cannot be
a beautiful canvas.
Public voting
In Hong Kong, only a selected minority (1,200 HK residents)
get to vote in the Chief Executive election held on Sunday. However, some citizens are pushing for HK to
move towards democracy. To further their
cause, enterprising HK democrats have set up a website where HK residents can
vote for one of the three choices (shown in the picture above). The website is secure, ensuring a fair voting
process. Website operators hope that
50,000 HKers will vote, but judging by their advertising, the vote may be
considerably higher. In typical China
bluntness, the mainland bureau in HK has complained that the public vote makes
a mockery of the actual non-representative election.
Taking photos
This storefront refers to a recent HK scandal where a shop
allowed rich mainlanders to take pictures of a shop’s storefront, but banned
local HKers from doing so. Mainlanders
have been coming to HK in recent numbers (28 million in 2011) largely to take
advantage of the zero sales tax rate.
The number of mainlanders has caused concerns in HK due to cultural differences,
perceived unequal treatment, and mainlanders seeking HK social benefits.
