Nestea likes them young and exotic-looking

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Nestea makes iced tea, but it gets all hot and bothered when it comes to those sexy foreign-exchange students. That's the take-away from new ads for Nestea Red Tea that are apparently running on bus shelters in the Baltimore and D.C. areas. The campaign is drawing some predictable criticisms (that the ads objectify, that they're xenophobic, that they're racist), but that seems like an overreaction. While the foreign students in the campaign might be "tasty," it's the slacker American student over at the "Liquid Awesomeness" site who's the real doofus.

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