I’m a student of propaganda, so naturally I ended up at the Bush re-election site to see what he had to tell the good people. This commercial is beautiful:
Obviously Bush and friends remember how to convey “Japanese” to today’s educated Americans: a gong, a loose representation the WWII era Japanese flag, and a badly altered anime character.
That says Japanese to me right there.
View more bits of genius at http://www.georgewbush.com/VideoAndAudio/.
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I was trying to figure out where to post my first comment to a “real” LRHB site (vs. a “coming soon” webpage) and I thought this would be a fitting venue for my debut.
A while back McDonalds started targeting the “Asian/Pacific Islander” target market with the site “www.i-am-asian.com” The site has since changed but you can still find remnants of peoples reaction to it on the web. Here’s a pretty good article about the Asian “market” or “demographic” in the eyes of the U.S: http://www.imdiversity.com/Villages/Asian/business_finance/asakawa_mcdonalds_asians_0504.asp
I especially found the pug with the “I am Asian” t-shirt … um … fitting.
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