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WATCH: 'Racist' Chinese TV ad goes viral

Posted at 11:45 AM, May 27, 2016
and last updated 2016-05-27 12:45:15-04

A Chinese product advertisement has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. People around the world are calling the commercial "racist," for its depiction of a black man.

The ad is for a laundry detergent brand called Qiaobi, who have declined to comment on the controversy surrounding it. The commercial has been viewed on YouTube more than 2 million times in about 24 hours.

Watch the commercial below.

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