A study of Canadian television advertising has found that whites are over-represented in commercials and racial stereotypes tend to be perpetuated where visible minorities appear.
I don't know about anyone else, but I can't remember the last time I saw a member of our First Nations, Inuit or Metis in the Hudson's Bay store or the local Abercrombie and Fitch for that matter!
"Hyack" said I don't know about anyone else, but I can't remember the last time I saw a member of our First Nations, Inuit or Metis in the Hudson's Bay store or the local Abercrombie and Fitch for that matter!
I see it all the time around here. The issue is that those places are all based out east where there are few Aboriginals, out here I see them in tons of posters.
?The media does have the power to shape our ideas about who people are. The media can reinforce cultural values that are already out there, so when we see commercials that feature characters that we are not used to seeing ? a black family eating at a restaurant rather than a white family ? little by little if we are exposed to those ideas over time, it broadens the idea of what is normal,? Baumann said.
Because most of us don't think it's normal for a black family to eat out at a restaurant?
The Canadian based company I work for, I've noticed has almost no white people in their interal websites for HR and Sales force pages. And the sensitivity training seemed also to imply that racism only applied to minorities.
I think they tried too hard, and ended up being what they tried so hard not to be.
All over campus there are posters depicting groups of students in various activities. Those groups of students are always composed to promote multiculturalism, including faces of various ethnicities; caucasian, black, Oriental, south Asian, Native. But if you've ever spent any time on a university campus, you'd know that those PC depictions are completely unrealistic. The Orientals stick to themselves. They don't let students of other ethnicities in their study groups.
I don't know about anyone else, but I can't remember the last time I saw a member of our First Nations, Inuit or Metis in the Hudson's Bay store or the local Abercrombie and Fitch for that matter!
I see it all the time around here. The issue is that those places are all based out east where there are few Aboriginals, out here I see them in tons of posters.
Because most of us don't think it's normal for a black family to eat out at a restaurant?
Where is this guy living?
Where does he think Canadians live?
Yes, must have more non-White faces on tv just for the sake of it.
Not for the sake of it.
You are being socially engineered.
I think they tried too hard, and ended up being what they tried so hard not to be.
I don't know about anyone else, but I can't remember the last time I saw a member of our First Nations, Inuit or Metis in the Hudson's Bay store
The last time a native person shopped at the Bay, they were screwed out of a six foot high stack of beaver pelts in exchange for a Brown Bess musket.
It brings me back to the Dave Chapelle, "grape drink" set about the Sunny Delight commercial.