Mercedes-Benz Pulls Chinese Ad Over Racist Eye Makeup Accusations

A Mercedes-Benz ad aired on Chinese social media website Weibo has since been pulled after users claimed makeup featured on one of the models reinforced racist beauty standards placed on Asian women by Western nations, the Communist Party’s Global Times reports. The controversy comes in the wake of an already-heated…

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