Anyone watched the Independence Day advertisement by Petronas? Where two schoolboy kids were asked to spell dinosaur, and how they spelled it wrongly. The interesting is near the end the cameraman asked one of the boy "Who is your best friend?" (or something like that). Then the boy pointed to his friend next to him and the cameraman asked "What is his race?" (again, something like that).
What the boy answered really touched my heart. "Race? What is race?" See how children are untainted with the cruelty and harshness of the world. How kids are colourblind, they treat others without prejudice regardless of your skin colour, religion or race. And even wondering why we adults teach our kids to do good and live good, but we ourselves don't practice what we preached.
It's a miracle how a simple advertisement left a thousand meaning..
[note] Quick test for you guys, no need to post your answer here. Enough with you knowing the answer yourself. List down as many name as you can of your friends during your primary and secondary school who were not the same race as you, and then list the name of your friends with the same criteria currently. Is the number growing, or is it shrinking rapidly? You be the judge..
p/s: it's colour because I follow British way of spelling it.
[addition] I got the advertisement's address at Petronas server (I believe so...) from Azhar (no need to click the link, his blog is and will not be updated for a long time because he just get married LOL). In effort to avoid all that copyright jack-shit, I don't want to save the video to my PC and upload it. It'll be best if I just link it here. This is the best option, because all other advertisements are worth checking for :)
What the boy answered really touched my heart. "Race? What is race?" See how children are untainted with the cruelty and harshness of the world. How kids are colourblind, they treat others without prejudice regardless of your skin colour, religion or race. And even wondering why we adults teach our kids to do good and live good, but we ourselves don't practice what we preached.
It's a miracle how a simple advertisement left a thousand meaning..
[note] Quick test for you guys, no need to post your answer here. Enough with you knowing the answer yourself. List down as many name as you can of your friends during your primary and secondary school who were not the same race as you, and then list the name of your friends with the same criteria currently. Is the number growing, or is it shrinking rapidly? You be the judge..
p/s: it's colour because I follow British way of spelling it.
[addition] I got the advertisement's address at Petronas server (I believe so...) from Azhar (no need to click the link, his blog is and will not be updated for a long time because he just get married LOL). In effort to avoid all that copyright jack-shit, I don't want to save the video to my PC and upload it. It'll be best if I just link it here. This is the best option, because all other advertisements are worth checking for :)
6 comments:
ade2.. namanya k-mie.. xtau what color code he belongs to.. :P
aku dh update dh.. finally.. heh
hurm, I never know I care so much about copyright. after finish putting the addition, then only I realize LOL..
u get the link from me lah! laki aku plak yg dpt nama cis!
no, i view the advertisement from your link. but i didn't save the link and couldn't view it at home. azhar gave me the link while i was at home, so technically i got the link from him. never argue with an installation-certified programmer, because he/she will have proof for everything he/she says. learning from experience, LOL.
race is when u go to sepang circuit.
reply berjela2!!
he got the link from me too
(but i got the link from google anyway..so who cares??)
oh btw, the q about friends from other races..hmm, i think mine is growing rapidly at this particular company :P
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