New iPad ad is shameful, say some viewers

The release of a new Apple advertisement, which shows a giant iPad crushing the symbols of human creativity (art and books), is angering users. Iza Kavedžija, an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge, explains why the ad is especially offensive to Japanese viewers.

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