parody
Jun 20 2008, Arpita Mukherjee

Parody is the humorous part of advertising and Japan’s E-mobile has landed in the soup for bringing its mascot the Japanese macaque monkey to imitate Barack Obama by propagating his slogan for “change” in an E-mobile ad. Racial discrimination has.

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