As most of you may already know either from the papers or the Mcdonalds outlets, it has produced a Chinese Zodiac collection for the nearing Chinese New Year. However, instead of a pig in the tenth place, its was a cupid Doraemon.It turns out that Mcdonalds feared offending the Muslims, since they were not allowed to feed on the meat of the pig, and therefore did not put the pig in the collection. But this move greatly upset the Chinese as some who were born in the year of the pig could not buy their animal sign. Others were also unable to complete the "real" collection due to the replacement of the pig.
It is quite understandable as to why this decision was made; we did not need anymore racial riots or tension. But in this case, Mcdonalds was a little too paranoid. First of all, it is just a TOY, NOT FOOD! Second of all, The twelve zodiac animals are part of our long, long, long Chinese history and culture so how could Mcdonalds so easily rewrite history in mere minutes, maybe seconds! Who do they think they are, God?
In conclusion, Mcdonalds should not have made such a careless decision, and should have considered the feelings of more than 3 million Chinese out of the total 4.7 million Singaporeans. Hence, I fully support the decision of bringing back the pig into the zodiac collection.
Oink, Oink, Hurray! Oink, Oink, Hurray! Oink, Oink,Hurray!
Yup, and thus the Pig will be sold from mid-April at McDonalds outlets. (:
ReplyDeleteI posted a write up on this in my blog too, so you could come over and see my views.
Cheers!
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ReplyDeleteProbably changing the pig Doraemon into a cupid Doraemon was a smart and wise choice. Although it has caused unhappiness among the Chinese community of Singapore and yes it is paranoid of MacDonald to have changed it as it is merely a toy and not food.
ReplyDeleteHowever it is these little and negligible details that has contributed to the build of tensions in several racial disputes. During the early history of Singapore, there was several racial disputes which were caused from the build up of tensions from these details and thus causing unhappiness in a minority of people which would slowly increase as the tension builds up.
This could also be related to the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. There was strong racial discrimination at that time which was also caused from the build up of such minor issues. Thinking that the blacks would not mind, they continued being more unreasonable each time.
Thus though such issues might be minute, it is nevertheless important.
Just a thought.
P/S:Sorry for the previous comment, I took it down due to bad paragraphing