The video was meant to promote road safety. Read more at straitstimes.com.
China’s Ministry of Public Security has come under fire for posting an online video featuring people in brownface singing a South Asian song.
According to reports in the BBC and South China Morning Post , the video was meant to promote road safety.The video features a popular influencer and two other men in brownface wearing turbans, and several women dressed in South or Central Asian costumes. Some said the song from the late 1990s, Tunak Tunak Tun, was hugely popular in China and is an example of “Indian soft power”.
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