@@theploot8230 Actually, they DID use spoons in ancient China, and were more common than chopsticks back then. Of course they didn't call them spoons, they have their own word for spoon in their own language xD
This was my objection, as I use my Chinese ceramic spoon to eat my hot and sour soup. I am not a historian of culinary technology, but my understanding is that China had spoons for centuries while Westerners were eating with knives. I'm reminded of Mr. Portakalis in My Big Fat Greek Wedding: " When your ancestors were swinging through trees, mine were inventing philosophy." It's the historical unawareness that bothers me, not racism.
@@skunkman9815 it's because their native language is tonal, they tend to pronounce eer, er, ar, ur, something like that which makes their pronounciaton of L and R divergent
@@MTC008Accurate according to who? Maybe uneducated americans. There are multiple Asian accents. Chinese and Japanese accents are differents and Japanese is not a tonal language unlike the Chinese.
How I like to think this advert happened: 'Hey wouldn't it be awkward trying to eat our product using chopsticks?' 'Yeah! Do an advert based on that idea!'
No I wouldn't call it maliciously racist. I love how they have to keep reminding us that that baby is not a baby but a Chinese baby. I'd say the funniest thing was a long time ago someone did a youtube video reply to one video where he showed that you could eat jello with chopsticks, very hard but doable. So he was like 'HA! Take that jello!'
@@theploot8230 Wrong. China, India, Roman Empire (before they were disbanded, Greece, and other countries I can't remember off the top of my head all contributed a great many things to science, medicine, technology, philosophy, the arts, etc. Without these countries, we wouldn't have computers, or a great number of other things either.
@White Chocolate I think I might have been wrong, but here's a list of all the things Indians invented. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_discoveries Edit: They did invent some stuff that was computer related, just not anything that led to the creation of the modern computer.
The best thing about this is the fact that the Chinese do indeed have spoons. And that's like, nothing new, and neither was back then when that commercial aired. „Chinese use spoons for food that is hard to pick with chopsticks, for example wobbly tofu...” I think the fact that this is a baby makes it somewhat normal though, as babies generally have no idea of anything and need to learn how to solve things.
I say the worst thing the commercial was guilty of was stereotyping, but it wasn't meant to be racist. It was styled after a Chinese pantomime, and many native Chinese speakers do have trouble pronouncing the "r" sound. Furthermore, it was a *baby* who didn't understand why he couldn't eat Jello with chopsticks. The commercial wasn't saying "all Chinese people are dumb, haha".
The characters are never presented as dumb or lazy or ugly, ect. Its not "an ignorant archaic view of Chinese" to not depict them in a eurocentric suit and tie during this time either. Conclusion, the guy who posted and labeled this video is a closet racist.
Despite the hilariously awful racism, the characters at the beginning of the commercial are accurate Chinese characters that roughly translate to "Ten flavors of Jell-O". Gotta give them credit for doing their research.
As a Chinese I am Ok with that bec I am not an SJW so I dont get triggered easily. And I found this ad very funny and it shows a lot meme potential and I can post it on Chinese media sites so that ppl can laugh at how ignorant Ppl(those who made this ad) were decades ago, yea I mean decades ago, u guys are way smarter and more informed right now so dont worry i love u guys.
You are so awesome! You have a beautiful spirit. Us humans still have a lot of learning to do. However we will all live in peace one day I know it. Thank you for your maturity I needed to see that.
Should this commercial be made today? No. Can we laugh at a bygone era and see that it is simultaneously offensive and harmless in nature? Of course we can. I find old 'racist' media to be hilarious because it's funny what you could get away with back then and what you would get killed for doing now. Things have changed a lot.
So you make it very obvious that the Asians couldn't pronounce any word that had a R in it, and replace it with the letter L ..... Chinese mother blings her baby glape jello to eat. Dam.....
Yes, it is racist by the standards of today. Cultural norms were different 60 years ago. All cultures learn and evolve, over time. What we all find OK today may very well be considered unacceptable in another fifty years, so I prefer not to judge the standards of yesteryear by today's standards.
So? Doesn't make it okay. Slavery was "the norm" to the standards of the 1700s but it doesn't mean slavery was okay or that we couldn't judge with today's standards.
@@shanenanigans27 Your example is an extreme representation of the characterization of the individual. It is not about slavery. Why don't you go to the ultimate extreme and refer to the Holocaust? Seriously, we are talking about an inappropriate representation of a member of a race of people. Not slavery. I notice that your tactic of debate seems to be common these days--using ridiculous comparisons, such as yours, to make a meaningless point.
@@DBGRIZZZ My point was that just because it was a "long time ago" and they had different standards back then doesn't mean people can't judge it and find it racist, ridiculous, and terrible. This commercial is perpetuating the racial stereotypes of Chinese culture and is mocking them on national television. We should look at this and judge it as racist. Just because mocking Asians was normal back then doesn't mean it was okay.
@@shanenanigans27 That's fine, but if you want to make an actual, relevant point, you should avoid using extreme hyperbole to do it. Avoid ridiculous analogies, comparing horrid slavery to an improper cartoon-like image. It's absurd. Your point would probably be more convincing if you stayed on topic, which was Dr. Suess' drawing of a Chinese person. His image might have been insensitive or insulting, I'll grant you that, but it's a huge leap of insanity to in any way compare it to slavery, ok?
@@DBGRIZZZ I wasn't saying it was the same as slavery? Obviously. It was an hyperbole to show the ridiculousness of the idea we can't criticize racism from long ago because of "different standards back then."
My wife, who is Chinese, was not offended at all, and thought it was amusing. Also, the Chinese writing at the beginning translates to "10 kinds jel o", where the bottom two characters phonetically represent the sounds "jel o"
These commercials were not racist. And they were very popular back in the 50s and early 60s. People should stop being so sensitive and taking offense at everything. It was just part of the times.
As far as im concerned, the only two slightly offensive things in this commercial are the obviously fake chinese accent of the narrator and the fact that they made both the spoon and the jelly seem like the greatest invention ever made by the west...and im pretty sure that both Jelly and the spoon werent invented in the States...
They may not be racist but they are incredibly unsensitive. What if in China, there were commercials with Fat American families walking around with burgers in their hand yelling loudly and buying things? I bet people here would freak out. This is just a bunch if stereotypes and made up bull shit. "Ohh thank god the chinese baby have America! For now he have Jello and spoon! Without us, he would surely be unhappy baby!"). Shit's weird. I'm american for the record.
I think the spoon was invented by the Ancient Egyptians, so in relation to China, it is a Western invention. Though I'm not certain that's what they meant by that!
The people who think this is racist are the same people who snap their fingers instead of clapping and have Mao and Che posters on their bedroom walls.
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If Chinese baby is happy, then dammit, I'm happy too!
Mmm grape!
Ok
@uwumeowmeow😘😘 Bullshit
@@Irrelevant402 Glape*
Meanwhile, the spoon was used in China centuries before the west
Plumface-sama nop
@@psychopain1 Yeah, you tell him. All good things comes from the west.
@@theploot8230 Actually, they DID use spoons in ancient China, and were more common than chopsticks back then. Of course they didn't call them spoons, they have their own word for spoon in their own language xD
@@laobok go watch Chinese mummies documentary. Europeans brought civilisation with them a few thousand years ago
This was my objection, as I use my Chinese ceramic spoon to eat my hot and sour soup. I am not a historian of culinary technology, but my understanding is that China had spoons for centuries while Westerners were eating with knives. I'm reminded of Mr. Portakalis in My Big Fat Greek Wedding: " When your ancestors were swinging through trees, mine were inventing philosophy." It's the historical unawareness that bothers me, not racism.
Actually, We, Asians, can eat jello with chopsticks... don't underestimate the ability of chopsticks
Or the ability of chopsticks-users! ;-)
My clumsy fingers have NEVER been able to use chopsticks!🤣
I once ate a whole bunch of bowtie pretzels with chopsticks.
One dude drank water with chopsticks
What about a Chinese baby?
“Glape” “Chinese type baby” oh, boy!
it was an ancient chinese art and the baby knew his part
From a feint into a slip
How the fuck did they have 10 different flavours of Jell-O, including "black raspberry", before they had grape? It just seems impossible.
I have never seen Apple jello, or grape, or black raspberry...
This ad is ancient, the flavors that are most popular have probably shuffled around. Also they probably added multiple flavors at once
That's Laspbelly you ass
@@stephaniegittinger7980jelly flavored jello
*GLAPE JELLY*
*CHINESE BABY VELY HAPPY*
the music at the end of the commerical just killed me
Even the American narrator's Japanese accent
@@thacow7603 this is just the accurate representation of how east asians speak english which is really true not gonna lie
@@MTC008it’s true
They say the letter R sound like a letter L
@@skunkman9815 it's because their native language is tonal, they tend to pronounce eer, er, ar, ur, something like that which makes their pronounciaton of L and R divergent
@@MTC008Accurate according to who? Maybe uneducated americans.
There are multiple Asian accents.
Chinese and Japanese accents are differents and Japanese is not a tonal language unlike the Chinese.
How I like to think this advert happened:
'Hey wouldn't it be awkward trying to eat our product using chopsticks?'
'Yeah! Do an advert based on that idea!'
And he's doing a Japanese accent...
I WAS ABOUT TO SAY-
The only red flags I see are the Chinese ones
It is chinese.
Least racist ad in the 50s.
Spoon was invented for eating jello
Yes indeed.
The most racist part is how well the ad execs thought Chinese babies could use chopsticks
The baby started stabbing the Jello so I guess they can't
Chinese mumma bling baby... JELLO !
Chinese baby he unable to tell if this jello is stlowblely, asbelly... 😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Chinese babeh vely happy
I showed my Chinese mom. She thought it was cute rather than racist
I mean... You CAN eat Jell-O WITH chopsticks, but it's a bit more complicated to do so than eating it with a spoon.
No I wouldn't call it maliciously racist. I love how they have to keep reminding us that that baby is not a baby but a Chinese baby.
I'd say the funniest thing was a long time ago someone did a youtube video reply to one video where he showed that you could eat jello with chopsticks, very hard but doable. So he was like 'HA! Take that jello!'
I agree.
"poor Chinese baby" 😂😂
This is stereotyping not racism.....
Katiee Brown no thanks the retarded disease will be spreading.
A LOT of ignoramuses can't tell the difference. Very stupid people.
Jared Fogle holy shit, time traveler
The chopsticks are black and the spoon is white
@@mohamad83742 so? That's how black and white works. What is racist about that.
Where Family Guy came from
My Chinese friend wasn't offended
He just said he felt bad for the child
If this was aired in 2020, then social
media would blow up, and the company would ultimately be forced to issue an enormous apology
it was on tiktok and people were crying over it
as they should for promoting this disgusting racist material
Probably not.
Chinese people are considered to be why-t this week because they succeed on their own too much.
I just absolutely love the emphasis on the baby being specifically Chinese. Did we forget to mention that this baby is Chinese?
This isn't really a Jell-O commercial, it's actual footage of Mao Zedong and his mother when he was a baby.
I'm surprised a baby could use chopsticks that well.
It's hilarious because spoons were first created and used in China and Egypt.
It wasn't common knowledge in that time.
But we have spoons, and multiple traditional desserts are made similar to jello
No you fuckin not, the west is where all the good shits come from, hell they're first civilization to rise from this earth.
@@theploot8230 Wrong. China, India, Roman Empire (before they were disbanded, Greece, and other countries I can't remember off the top of my head all contributed a great many things to science, medicine, technology, philosophy, the arts, etc. Without these countries, we wouldn't have computers, or a great number of other things either.
@White Chocolate India came up with the basic concepts of what a computer is, which would be used to create the modern computer eventually.
@White Chocolate I think I might have been wrong, but here's a list of all the things Indians invented. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_discoveries
Edit: They did invent some stuff that was computer related, just not anything that led to the creation of the modern computer.
@@theploot8230 haha say that to the indo arabic numbers we all use nowadays
The best thing about this is the fact that the Chinese do indeed have spoons.
And that's like, nothing new, and neither was back then when that commercial aired.
„Chinese use spoons for food that is hard to pick with chopsticks, for example wobbly tofu...”
I think the fact that this is a baby makes it somewhat normal though, as babies generally have no idea of anything and need to learn how to solve things.
In their defense It wasn't common knowledge just saying...
I'm more impressed that a baby can use chopsticks
If this aired today it would be all over Twitter and get canceled
A truly groundbreaking statement
Even the name "twitter" is cancelled now! -Twitter tweet- X posting
It is not racist nor was it the intention. The problem is this mode of accusing everything of racism.
I say the worst thing the commercial was guilty of was stereotyping, but it wasn't meant to be racist.
It was styled after a Chinese pantomime, and many native Chinese speakers do have trouble pronouncing the "r" sound. Furthermore, it was a *baby* who didn't understand why he couldn't eat Jello with chopsticks. The commercial wasn't saying "all Chinese people are dumb, haha".
Im Asian American w Asian eyes like the Chinese baby in this commercial. And i Love ❤ this commercial.
Me too!
I think this has officially won my award for my favorite commercial of all time
small chinese type baby...LOL!
The characters are never presented as dumb or lazy or ugly, ect.
Its not "an ignorant archaic view of Chinese" to not depict them in a eurocentric suit and tie during this time either.
Conclusion, the guy who posted and labeled this video is a closet racist.
This is such bullshit. I've eaten Jell-O with chopsticks
Despite the hilariously awful racism, the characters at the beginning of the commercial are accurate Chinese characters that roughly translate to "Ten flavors of Jell-O". Gotta give them credit for doing their research.
Cool! I wondered about that.
I litterally don't understand what you're getting at.
Wrong
Not enough to let them know that Chinese people had spoons before American was even a known continent but whatever
@@MimikyuCookie I don't think anyone in the production room honestly believed the Chinese didn't have spoons.
Jello Come In 10 Flavor
10? Did they lower or make new flavors over the years?
This would be another example of what I would refer to as "Mid-century Madness."
As a Chinese I am Ok with that bec I am not an SJW so I dont get triggered easily. And I found this ad very funny and it shows a lot meme potential and I can post it on Chinese media sites so that ppl can laugh at how ignorant Ppl(those who made this ad) were decades ago, yea I mean decades ago, u guys are way smarter and more informed right now so dont worry i love u guys.
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ahh so
You are so awesome! You have a beautiful spirit. Us humans still have a lot of learning to do. However we will all live in peace one day I know it. Thank you for your maturity I needed to see that.
This was my fave commercial on TV as a little kid. Still is actually 50+ years later.
Agree with you, I would Not be triggered
Spoons were actually first found in Ancient Egypt, they are not a western invention
I came from The comments section with Bert Cooper when she reacted to this
today I learned that spoons were invented to eat Jello
Jello is nothing but a commercial brand of chilled gelatin. But stupid and uneducated think it is real food.
@@oasdfo3 wtf does your comment have to do with spoons?
The Chinese does not think that this is rasict commercial
Not like the snowflakes of America?
You mean lacist commelcial
I laughed. Don't get offended that I did please. You have to admit, it was kind of funny.
Correction: It was kind of flunny.
This commercial was animated by Manny Perez and was produced by the Ray Patin studio
Today that baby would be in her 70's.
Should this commercial be made today? No. Can we laugh at a bygone era and see that it is simultaneously offensive and harmless in nature? Of course we can. I find old 'racist' media to be hilarious because it's funny what you could get away with back then and what you would get killed for doing now. Things have changed a lot.
Oh yeah, we wouldn't wanna upset the rhino poaching communist filth. Would we? 🙄
This commercial was in The Buddy Holly Story.
In Chinese to English, this translates to “Ten samples of sugarcane dew.”
Dear sirs of Jell'o company, millennias before 4th July 1776, China uses spoon from the Shang Dinasty.
If you get rid of the cringe inducing voice over then this ad is pretty endearing actually, I enjoy the character designs.
Big Angry Phil sent me here
I bet people would outrage if this was aired today
as they should
People are too damn sensitive.
If anything is slightly racist, people freak out.
Like chill, its a commercial, no need to get up in arms about it.
@@FortyWink exactly
Before everyone was but hurt!!
Were jews butthurt from hitler? Think about it.
I love that old-fashioned all-American political incorrectness in advertising!
Me too!
@@univon4892 Me too I know the creator
@@motomansportsforever1076 That is amazing I gotta say and also you don't mind me asking how did you met the creator?
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Is pretty guud commarsial, no?
k.
Plot twist, this is actually a spoon commercial
Does anybody know what year this might have been made
Poor Chinese baby 0:30
How is spoon a western invention?
So you make it very obvious that the Asians couldn't pronounce any word that had a R in it, and replace it with the letter L ..... Chinese mother blings her baby glape jello to eat. Dam.....
This wasn’t racist this was cute
By todays standards this is a pretty controversial commercial. It’s pretty messed up and offensive.
Can someone check if the Chinese actually says anything?
I wish commercials were still like this.
Oh me too I'm not alone!
For sure!!!! And its coming from Asian American w Asian eyes like the Chinese baby in this commercial.
@@messenger_144 Okay
Poor Chinese baby. He have no sister because she abandoned by parents.
And adopted by white jews in Usa who trained her to be a harvard MD.
The baby has a bow in its hair..... back then that meant female.
Lots of print and TV ads similar like this one during the 70s and 80s, back in the days where life is simple and people not get easily triggered
True.
Yes, it is racist by the standards of today. Cultural norms were different 60 years ago. All cultures learn and evolve, over time. What we all find OK today may very well be considered unacceptable in another fifty years, so I prefer not to judge the standards of yesteryear by today's standards.
So? Doesn't make it okay. Slavery was "the norm" to the standards of the 1700s but it doesn't mean slavery was okay or that we couldn't judge with today's standards.
@@shanenanigans27 Your example is an extreme representation of the characterization of the individual. It is not about slavery. Why don't you go to the ultimate
extreme and refer to the Holocaust? Seriously, we are talking about an inappropriate representation of a member of a race of people. Not slavery. I notice that your tactic of debate seems to be common these days--using ridiculous comparisons, such as yours, to make a meaningless point.
@@DBGRIZZZ My point was that just because it was a "long time ago" and they had different standards back then doesn't mean people can't judge it and find it racist, ridiculous, and terrible. This commercial is perpetuating the racial stereotypes of Chinese culture and is mocking them on national television. We should look at this and judge it as racist. Just because mocking Asians was normal back then doesn't mean it was okay.
@@shanenanigans27 That's fine, but if you want to make an actual, relevant point, you should avoid using extreme hyperbole to do it. Avoid ridiculous analogies, comparing horrid slavery to an improper cartoon-like image. It's absurd. Your point would probably be more convincing if you stayed on topic, which was Dr. Suess' drawing of a Chinese person. His image might have been insensitive or insulting, I'll grant you that, but it's a huge leap of insanity to in any way compare it to slavery, ok?
@@DBGRIZZZ I wasn't saying it was the same as slavery? Obviously. It was an hyperbole to show the ridiculousness of the idea we can't criticize racism from long ago because of "different standards back then."
somebody is a guilty white kid, huh, OP?
Damn a lot of total dips in this comments section who think there's "harmless" racism.
This is not racist.
Racist asmr… jokes a side who tf thought this was a great way to sell jell-o?!
I never heard any Chinese accent like this at all. Doesn’t sound like a Chinese accent lol
Go back and watch old Charlie Chan shows and you'll hear plenty of this fortune cookie talk.
Poor baby
Chinese type baby holy fuck bring braby soy sauce 4 jerro
China baby bring u iphone 12 and china made ak47.
my favourite jello flavour is glape
This is so funny!
My wife, who is Chinese, was not offended at all, and thought it was amusing. Also, the Chinese writing at the beginning translates to "10 kinds jel o", where the bottom two characters phonetically represent the sounds "jel o"
Not offended either as we are used to white people being racist. Like it's just their nature.
How does a baby eat with chopsticks? and how do you eat jello with damn chopsticks???
What is the deep dark new flavour
Glape...er, grape.
I have never seen Apple jello
how i use chopsticks 0:22
Thats a racial stereotype
how is this racist
I love this commercial
Glape jello!
Chinese baby vely happy
XD
I died for this word
Oh Chinese baby
Baby bish my name is alex get it right
Better call Xi Ping right away and report this!
Stereotyping , but not intended as racist - some folks have racist on the brain - too overly sensitive. Talk about RACE BAITING mentality
FREE HONG KONG!!!
Free Taiwan
Seems kinda familiar.
Yes, racist and btw racism at the end is always malicious only in that time it was considered ok
Pool Chinese Baby in Comments, He Velly upset over commercial
These commercials were not racist. And they were very popular back in the 50s and early 60s. People should stop being so sensitive and taking offense at everything. It was just part of the times.
+dntamuu76 It's the 2010s being overly sensitive is the only trend left in the world now.
As far as im concerned, the only two slightly offensive things in this commercial are the obviously fake chinese accent of the narrator and the fact that they made both the spoon and the jelly seem like the greatest invention ever made by the west...and im pretty sure that both Jelly and the spoon werent invented in the States...
They may not be racist but they are incredibly unsensitive. What if in China, there were commercials with Fat American families walking around with burgers in their hand yelling loudly and buying things? I bet people here would freak out. This is just a bunch if stereotypes and made up bull shit. "Ohh thank god the chinese baby have America! For now he have Jello and spoon! Without us, he would surely be unhappy baby!"). Shit's weird. I'm american for the record.
I think the spoon was invented by the Ancient Egyptians, so in relation to China, it is a Western invention. Though I'm not certain that's what they meant by that!
Yea, at least stereotyping is better than racist lol.
poooou chinese baby
poor chinese baby
And why is this racist?
not lacist at all.
Ahh yes, pangourin fravor Jerro, pelfect
how is that rasist,,,,,,,
*racist
The people who think this is racist are the same people who snap their fingers instead of clapping and have Mao and Che posters on their bedroom walls.
Well said!
Racist.??? Is there anyone use chopstick to eat Jelly??