It is in a cartoon nudelreklam as the tennis star with the japanese and the u.s. citizenship drawn with light skin. Now being forced to sponsor Nissin Foods apologize for the so-called whitewashing.
” There was no conscious intention to this, we accept that we are not sensitive enough and we will be more attentive in the future, said a spokesperson for Nissin according to The Guardian.
born in Japan of a japanese mother and a father from Haiti and represents Japan says that she received an apology from the company.
” I’m brown, it is pretty obvious. But I don’t think they did it deliberately. But I really think they should talk with me the next time they are going to take with me in an advertisement, ” she says.
Naomi Osaka are playing the final of the Australia Open against Petra Kvitova from the Czech republic on Saturday.
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