As if we wouldn't notice...

I'm watching an infomercial en espanol right now on an obscure UHF channel for a Chinese diet tea: Té Chino del Dr. Ming

The ad is all slutty-looking girls taking showers in bikinis. Whatever. That's not why I'm writing because it's no more offensive than say, Sabado Gigante, which I enjoy from time to time for some reason. I'm not even that offended by the really chinky font they used for the advertisement. Generic Asian sounding music? Nope. The intermittent gong sound effect? Wrong again.

The bit I find so offensive that I'm actually writing here before 9 a.m. on a holiday, the graphic on the box is of a Chinese man, we can assume that is Dr. Ming.

Oh okay! Wait, no...It is actually Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and political theorist who founded the Keio University." (Thanks again, Wikipedia). How did I figure that out? He's been on Japanese printed currency (the 10,000 yen banknote) since the 1980s.

So, what the hell?

I don't post non-Empirical photos on Empirical so if you are interested, here are the links:
The money
Clip from infomercial