{"id":3113,"date":"2016-03-10T14:26:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2016-04-07T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T20:54:42","slug":"mcdonalds-commercial-taiwan-freaking-out-religious-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/mcdonalds-commercial-taiwan-freaking-out-religious-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"See the McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Commercial That Is Freaking Out Religious Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3114\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3114\" class=\" wp-image-3114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screenshot_2016-03-10-14-10-50-1-1024x544.png\" alt=\"Scene from the McDonalds commercial\" width=\"575\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screenshot_2016-03-10-14-10-50-1-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screenshot_2016-03-10-14-10-50-1-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screenshot_2016-03-10-14-10-50-1.png 1346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene from the McDonalds commercial<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>A new TV commercial for <span style=\"color: #cc107b;\">McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taiwan<\/span> is causing controversy as it features a young man coming out as gay to his father inside the restaurant.<\/h3>\n<h3>I wonder how many times this has actually happened inside a McDonalds?<\/h3>\n<h3>The 90-second ad was posted to the <span style=\"color: #cc107b;\">McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taiwan Facebook page<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #cc107b;\">YouTube channel\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>on <span style=\"color: #008000;\">March 4<\/span> and is in Taiwanese but here is the translation.<\/h3>\n<h3>The ad shows the dad pound his fist on the table and storms off after reading on a cup of coffee, <span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I like boys\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span> which his son wrote.<\/h3>\n<h3>When the father returns, you see the son is devastated. The father picks up his son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coffee cup and writes <span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I accept that you like boys\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span>. The commercial ends with a voice saying <span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let there be more warmth in conversations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Watch the commercial below.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4CfgO56C0I8?rel=0\" width=\"590\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wow. What a moving commercial. This is definitely NOT the type of commercial we are used to seeing from McDonald&#8217;s. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting that the popular fast-food joint would touch upon some a topic (especially in a country where gay marriage is illegal) and as expected not everyone is supporting or reacting well to the ad.<\/p>\n<h3>Some religious groups in Taiwan are trying to launch a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">boycott<\/span>, pointing out that McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s is frequented by children and they do not support them being exposed to the messaging.<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #cc107b;\">What do you think?<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>Do you support McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for their message of acceptance and unconditional love or do you think the restaurant shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get involved in social issues?<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new TV commercial for McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taiwan is causing controversy as it features a young man coming out as gay to his father inside the restaurant. I wonder how many times this has actually happened inside a McDonalds? The 90-second ad was posted to the McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taiwan Facebook page and YouTube channel\u00c2\u00a0on March 4 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[183,184],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsandgossip","tag-mcdonalds","tag-taiwan-mcdonalds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}