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grantcart

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7. You think that is bad, Colgate owns "Darkie" Toothpaste

Reply to JHan (Original post)

Sun Dec 16, 2018, 01:51 AM

Dec 2018

And it says "Darkie" in Thai.

It is very popular in Asia, you see it everywhere. It owns 75% market share in Taiwan alone.

In 1989 Colgate bought it and changed it to Darlie toothpaste outside of China. I understand it is still called "Black person tooth paste in Chinese.

They tried to change the image over time to make it racially ambiguous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlie

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You think that is bad, Colgate owns "Darkie" Toothpaste grantcart Dec 2018 #7

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