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False Advertising - College Term Papers

False Advertising

"My mailbox and million of demographically similar others are choked with flyers from companies (Wal-mart, Victoria's Secret) bent on publicizing both their wares and their social bona fides by displaying black and white models at cordial ease with one another. A torrent of good will messages about race arrives daily - revelations of corporate largesse, commercials, news features, TV specials, all proclaiming that whites like me feel strongly positive impulses of friendship for blacks and that those same admirable impulses are effectively eradicating racial differences , rendering blacks and whites the same."--Benjamin Demott.
According to Demott advertisements such as American Express ...

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underlying messages. Perhaps in Demott's generation it was normal to crucify and analyze interracial relationships. My generation is different because interracial relationships are of the norm and there is more of a chance to find someone who believes there is nothing wrong with them then to find someone who does. Only those of Demotts' generation look at advertisements of today and see something wrong. Many things have changed in the past ten years and my peers and I have changed with them. For our generation so many things that others might find shocking or bizarre are only the norm to us.
Some of the shocking or bizarre actions that are more normal actions to our generation are some of the new trends such as piercing many parts of the body. Tattooing is as well become a very common trend among our generation. Clothing trends and hair styles are also trends that use to identify themselves and therefore have been taken to an extreme for shock value. And last interracial ...

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Added: 3/30/2008 09:40:30 PM
Category: Social Issues
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1110
Pages: 5

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