There's several of these "Adoga News" videos, links are on the sidebar for this one. Professionally done, with the speaker, whose Chinese is obviously excellent, pretending to speak in a choppy, lame accent. Basically the equivalent of foreigner blackface. Sad. Won't be buying any Acer products anytime soon.
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Wouldn't "foreigner blackface" ("whiteface"?) be a Taiwanese person pretending to be a foreigner and speaking with a funny accent? I've seen plenty of those, but this isn't it. (Plus I don't think his accent is *that* bad for a non-native speaker.)
ReplyDeleteIt's not that bad, in fact, as I noted, I bet his Chinese is excellent, seems much better than mine. But listening to it you can catch sometimes where he slides into good Chinese from that fakey foreigner staccato Chinese.
ReplyDeleteMichael
You are aware that Jesus (who is Spanish) has been doing this show for a long time and very successfully on his own YouTube channel?
ReplyDeleteI actually find his playing with these cliches quite funny.
Now Acer apparently paid him to hold their tablet in a few episodes and uploaded it onto their channel.
Nope, I know the guy. That's about how good his Chinese is. A lot of the lines are just memorized. He is a good comedian though....
ReplyDeleteIt might just be that you're not used to hearing Mandarin with a Spanish accent and intonation. Or you could be right; we Spanish haven't yet figured out that blackface is a problem.
ReplyDeleteThanks guys.
ReplyDeleteMichael