Firstly, I just want to send out prayers to those in Haiti…
So much has been changed here in the last 40 years & Australia is a very young nation (Federation was just over 100 yrs ago). There are still a lot of issues that our govt is slowly trying to deal with & like every other country there is racism, but generally this is a pretty good cultural melting pot. Just like America we have people from all over the world that call Australia home, but we've really only begun to open our doors to the world since the end of WW2. So huge adaptations in a very short length of time. We had to develop our own sense of identity & national pride, stepping away from the British shadow. That only got going in the 60s & 70s. So, now we're bombarded with American TV, movies sport & food (not that we're told much about rascist stereotypes attached to things like fried chicken :-) ) & your big corporations have come in & bought out iconic Aussie companies, often changing them in ways we don't like. We love you as individuals (apart for maybe people like Pat Robertson), but we often resent American ignorance of us when we are force fed so much about American “popular culture”. We worry that the huge tide of American “stuff” is going to smother our new found sense of what it is to be an Aussie. Compared to the US we've only a small population, it's hard to preserve our identity.

Aaarrgghh!!!!! This is doing my head in!!!!! How to explain this in a way even an American can understand… Ok, forget there are black & white people in the commercial. The whole point of the ad is the fanatical supporter of one sports team is stuck in the middle of a big group of fanatical supporters of the other competing sports team. As KFC sponsors the Windies team why not use their fans? They are black people from the WEST INDIES, they don't eat soul food & neither do Aussies! The whole concept of African Americans eating soul food stereotype has nothing to do with either country. The Windies have recently been playing against the Aussies, why they didn't feature the Poms barmy army instead (look them up & see how crazy cricket supporters can be). These matches are played for DAYS so you'd be sitting there for the whole day in the middle of your rivals. You buy seat tickets, you can't move around in some stands. This ad is stupid, but it's far less stupid than the crazy behaviour you see in the stands during a match & none of it is racially motivated. The international fans of the teams that compete all get into taking the mickey out of each other. Cricket brings people from all over the world together. Maybe Yanks should consider getting a team together, you'd learn a thing or two about tolerance