From: Bill Wharton (bill_wharton@mailhost.cjb.net)
Date: Mon Jan 16 2006 - 10:31:25 GMT-3
Can't see any racism either. I like the point you make Chuck
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Church, Chuck
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:21 PM
To: Victor Cappuccio; kwasi-ccie@comcast.net; Jamie Caesar; D R
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: RE: OT: The pic on www.cisco.com right now
Hold on everyone, I think we're reading a little too far into this. The
commercial does show an engineer of possible Indian heritage, and an
older boss (who has a striking resemblance to Yoda!). But these are
just characters in a commercial, probably chosen by marketing people.
Marketing people are not really human, they are a species that Dilbert
regularly (and rightfully) makes fun of. They could easily have picked
circus clowns, the Blue Man Group, Britney Spears, or David Spade
instead. There's no racism involved, from what I can tell.
Chuck
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Victor Cappuccio
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 8:26 PM
To: kwasi-ccie@comcast.net; 'Jamie Caesar'; 'D R'
Cc: 'Cisco certification'
Subject: RE: OT: The pic on www.cisco.com right now
It's incredible that in these days the racism still exist.
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De: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] En nombre de
kwasi-ccie@comcast.net
Enviado el: domingo, 15 de enero de 2006 21:19
Para: Jamie Caesar; D R
CC: Cisco certification
Asunto: Re: OT: The pic on www.cisco.com right now
I guess you haven't seen the security commercial on TV. Indian techie
???
That borders on racism....
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From: Jamie Caesar <jamie.caesar@gmail.com>
> I thought the exact same thing, but I've heard they are part of a TV
ad
> campaign, although I've never seen the commercials myself. Apparently
they
> run on ESPN.
>
> On 1/14/06, D R wrote:
> >
> > wtf? what's that pic trying to convey? What's Cisco trying to do
with
that
> > pic? I'm not smoking anything funny but really, why's this pic on
the
main
> > page of the world's biggest internetworking company? maybe that old
man
is
> > about to die and that indian techie is happily thinking "oooh i'm
going
to
> > put a wireless webserver on this guy's grave so his family can
conduct
> > services remotely".
> >
> > weird.
> >
> >
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