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Much ado about nothing. The demographics in Poland are not the same as the demographics in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Poland#Ethnic_g

• felideon 17y ago
  They could have at least chosen another picture, rather than photoshopping the original one.
  • icey 17y ago
    Yeah, I'll give you that that's pretty odd.
    • zck 17y ago
      As a result of the Photoshopping, notice the duplication of the window ledge right behind the guy's head.
      • arantius 17y ago
        Oh! The _white guy_ is the one photoshopped in! That's not the sort of thing I'm used to seeing.
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  • astine 17y ago
    I get the impression that in large companies it's standard practice to photshop ads while internationalizing rather than looking for new stock photos with the color schemes and angles.
• tptacek 17y ago
  It's not damning, but it is interesting.
• dannyr 17y ago
  If that's the case, I wonder why the Asian guy stayed in the picture.
  • icey 17y ago
    There's an enormous thread over at reddit discussing this right now as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/9e157/microsoft_poland_spot_the_difference/ http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/9e157/microsoft_poland_...
• thras 17y ago
  Say rather, the Polish are more upset at being edited out of Microsoft's media representations than your average white male. Install Visual Studio and watch the pictures some time. Now look around your office. Notice the difference? Same thing has happened to U.S. television. Watch TV from the 1960s or 1970s. Watch The Rockford Files on Hulu, for example. The contrast between then and today is amazing. You'll see white men demanding and receiving respect. Today, they're the butt of every joke. (Oh, the above is totally non-PC. So please down-mod it with a vengeance before you go back to your masturbatory religious devotions to the modern gods Diversity and Equality. But do remember me the next time a girl turns you down in a bar for not being as masculine as her ideal.)
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  • jibiki 17y ago
    > Today, they're the butt of every joke. I think this trend probably peaked a few years ago (Family Guy is a good example.) You can actually see it reversing if you watch King of the Hill: the earliest episodes generally show Hank as a small minded redneck, whereas later episodes portray him as a lone voice of sanity. Anyways, if you look outside of comedies, there are plenty of masculine male leads in popular shows (Jack Bauer comes to mind.) As for race, I can't even think of a popular drama where the male lead is black (and the other characters aren't.) But maybe I just don't watch enough TV.
    • crux_ 17y ago
      I think it's tough to say when that particular trend "peaked." Consider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3s8sEYzHWQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3s8sEYzHWQ or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TGQ7rGL-Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TGQ7rGL-Q Or even: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1MgjQOR_JA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1MgjQOR_JA ;)
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• rbanffy 17y ago
  You know... There is a limit to tailoring an advertisement towards a specific group and plain racism. Is the black guy offensive to the people involved in producing the page? Did they think he was offensive to the clients in Poland? What would we be discussing if someone photoshopped burkas on the women on the same site? There is no way to make this look good.
• ciupicri 17y ago
  This has reminded me of number 4 from http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=stock_photos http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=stock_photos