Sometimes You Have To Listen To The Lyrics First

“Amid a global rollout of its new mini-SUV, General Motors is pulling an international television commercial for its Chevrolet Trax — an ad featuring a song including the lyric ‘ching ching, chop suey,’ plus other references that offended Asian viewers as well as dated depictions of the Middle East. Perhaps the strangest part of the scandal is that each of those references offended different markets in the rollout in a different way… The lyrics include references to China as ‘the land of Fu Manchu’ where girls say ‘ching, ching, chop-suey, swing some more!’ The song also references racial stereotypes of Arabs, Gypsies and Japanese.”