Mixed-race images common in advertising

http://www.salon.com/ent/wire/2005/02/15/ads/

In the idyllic world of TV commercials, Americans increasingly are living together side by side, regardless of race. The diverse images reflect a trend that has been quietly growing in the advertising industry for years: Racially mixed scenarios -- families, friendships, neighborhoods and party scenes -- are often used as a hip backdrop to sell products.

 

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As much as i HATE with a PASSION the ad world, it is good they are showing black and 'mixed-race' people togther. i am mixed race. here in the UK you dont see hardly ANY black people in ads. the occasional ones but usually they are just blacks in an ad.

We have a long running soap here called Eastenders. it featured an Asian family. the young Asians were really refelceting a type of Western culture MCing and stuff. but the ratings went down, and people were moaning about them, and about the 'crap storyline' with them.
I instinctively sussed this was a 'unconscius' racism going on.
For example, i bet if you challenged them they would come with 'just cause i say they cant act, does this mean i am being racist' bla bla. HOW do you anser that. its like a catch22 kinda shit...i have heard it before from some critics, and it's a kind of 'shrouded' (for some) racism

you have seen it in the music industry. when i was growin up in the 1960s, the music was FUCKIN HOTTTTT! we were getting real downhome soul and funk from Afre Americans, and believe it you sure got the spirit dancing to it. you also had the amalgamation of white middle calss rock and Blues!....however few years later..we get MTV who wont show any black videos

i love the merging of all peoples. it is GREAT!

 

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That "Got Milk ?" comercial is mixed race

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I would be more interested in seeing more "African Americans" and other minorities in Ad's such as investment banking and home ownership etc......more so than "Hip-Hop" ad's :m:

 

Actually I believe I have....

 

I'm mixed race. My mother was a woman, my father was a man. You can't get more mixed than that.

 

Yes you could: if your mother was a man and your father a woman, you'd be much more mixed, or mixed up at least.

 

did you get racist abuse all through your schooling years?

 

No. Just abuse. Same as all children. It's the downside of selection pressures in evolution.

 

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Your view. my insight is that its rather the stuffin togther of a load of pissed off kids in a building geared to spew out dumbed down people who spew racist views and promote cut throat business and wars

You call that 'evolution', i call it the patriarchal mindset in action

 

The interesting thing is that it's not a big deal. It used to be that if there was a mixed race couple on a show, it was the focus of the story. Star crossed lovers and all that. Nowadays, you just see a mixed race couple and no comment is made. We've come a long way since that first inter-racial kiss on TV between Captain Kirk and Uhura.

 

In some comedy shows if they want to make a girl seem like a slut they'll make her have a black boyfriend.
It's the new short skirt and blue eye makeup.
Because the truth is lots of sluts don't dress like that. They can be quite frumpy. I think it's good they dropped that slut stereotype and went for the - more socially acceptable and realistic for this modern age - black boyfriend.

 

True, but it's the stuff of comedy. I've never met a slim white girl with a black boyfriend. They're always pudgy.
Guess if you can't respect your race, you can't respect your body.

On the other hand, you never see attractive Asian women dating attractive Caucasian men. I think there's some natural law against it, like it would violate the conservation of momentum.

 

We must have gone to different schools. I think there were forty plus children in my primary school classes, but it didn't seem claustrophobic.
I don't recall them being especially pissed off - why should they be? Rationing had just ended and some of us had two pairs of shoes. One of our neighbours actually had a TV!
Well, certainly some truly dumb individuals emerged (I don't think they were 'spewed') from my school, but as I recall they were even dumber when they entered.
Ah, well, they were racist, you have me there. Not conventional racism - everybody, as far as the eye could see was white. We had to reserve our bigotry for those who were really different: the catholics. But, come to think of it, that wasn't the school, that was the parents. And I got lucky. Mine taught me to judge by actions not labels - and the school did the same.
'Promote cut-throat business and wars'. I must have been off sick when we did those classes.
Yes. We were definitely at different schools.

 

come of it Oph.......it is common knowedge that schools are human hamburger joints

 

So you are saying that if you date outside your race then that is disrespecting your race?

 

That wasn't my experience. It wasn't the experience of my children. I don't hold much truck with common knowledge or, for that matter, common sense. Most Americans will tell you that somewhere between 10% and 20% of their tax dollar goes in some form of foreign aid. It's common knowledge. The actual figure is less than 1%.
Being the only mixed race kid must have been hard. I am not being trite, but living in a parochial Scottish island community with an English mother I experienced a flavour of what you doubtless experienced as a three course meal.
That doesn't alter the fact that I owe a debt of gratitude to those in my primary, secondary and tertiary educational establishments. I'm sorry your experiences were so negative. May I ask what you are doing to address the problem you have identified, apart from whinging on sci-forums? (I'm assuming you have done something. I'm genuinely asking, what?)

 

Who cares really... aslong as you yourself are not a racist pig then you and your friends can have hope in humanity.. segregation is not stable and will die out eventually, as long as media isnt PRO racist which its not.. its neutral and exagerated at times. i watched some day time tv a while ago.. movie was big fish.. anyway (dont discuss the movie please) but there was a bunch of so called childhood friends in the movie .. a girl .. some boys and a black boy. Im sorry but no way in the 30's in southern america.. would a company that big be mixed race and mixed sex.. no way..
It just shows media is reaching a scitzophrenia of anti racism. so all is good no need to worry or discuss why the mentally ill writers and viewers of eastenders got some plot wrong. :m:

 

It is really weird how some people hang on to race, religion or nationality when it comes to judging people. They seem to forget the value of a human is based on their ethics and actions rather than their appearance.

What is truly disturbing are those Christian based, far right winged types like Christian Identity. Somehow through Jesus's teachings, they reached the conclusion that only whites have souls. The remaining mud people lack souls. There are truly some warped people in this world.