Brad Pitt is bad for Asia....

This is super old news (dated 2002) but I laughed out loud when I dug this bit up.

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Too Handsome? Brad Banned in Malaysia
The Asian country's government bans a car ad featuring Brad Pitt because his looks would "plant a sense of inferiority among Asians."

TUESDAY DECEMBER 17, 2002 11:00 AM EST
By Stephen M. Silverman

A Toyota advertisement featuring Brad Pitt has been banned in Malaysia because it is "an insult to Asians," according to published reports. In an official sanction, the Malaysian government ordered the ads to be pulled because the sight of non-Asian faces such as the 39-year-old actor's would "plant a sense of inferiority among Asians," the county's deputy information minister Zainuddin Maidin tells the national news agency Bernama.

The widespread ads, hawking Toyota Altis cars, were featured on TV, billboards and in newspapers across Asia and were reportedly a favorite target of fans who swiped the posters off public walls and put them up in their own bedrooms. (The ad does not appear in the U.S.) "Why must we use their faces in our advertisements?" Zainuddin says. "Aren't our own people handsome enough?" He adds: "We barred the advertisement as it appeared as a humiliation against Asians."

There has been no comment from the Pitt camp.

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It's too bad I was in the U.S. when this happened (which is probably why I've never heard of this before). How retarded is this? Pardon my words, but if our Malaysian men were SOOOO handsome and confident in themselves, they wouldn't be affected by Brad Pitt's ad.

Besides, who is this Zainuddin to speak on behalf of Asian men, anyway? Dude, have you discussed this with Japanese or East Timor men? Look, if you and your buddies are feeling inferior to Brad Pitt, that's your problem. But pls, don't embarrass all the men of Asia, thank you.