HONG KONG: A “racist” insurance commercial depicting a male Chinese actor as a Filipina maid has drawn outrage on social media in Hong Kong, with groups representing the city’s domestic helpers calling for an apology.
Aimed at the employers of Hong Kong’s 300,000 maids, who mainly hail from the Philippines and Indonesia, the domestic helper insurance advert for the bank shows the Chinese actor wearing dark orange make-up and a curly wig as he plays clumsy maid “Maria”.
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