as the saying goes "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" The gap has increased steadily every year and as companies keep catering to the more affluent people the trend will continue. I doubt its a MCD decision seeing as it is a franchise and each is individually owned, but there def. is a growing trend in big business to racially profile and exploit certain economic classes
i dont think they are exploiting african americans, they are just going along with the cool to be black trend. There isn't a single commercial or a TV show without a black man on it now.
Nike has a commercial where bernie mac pretends to be preaching about basketball
another example is pop music, pop music back around 1999 was real POP music, now pop music is R&B even justin timberlake pretends to be R&B now same with britney spears
before it was backstreet boys,nsync, 98 degrees type of pop
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Jan-04-2004 06:03
prolikewhoa
veteran attention whore
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Berlin
quote:
Originally posted by mndeg
i dont think they are exploiting african americans, they are just going along with the cool to be black trend. There isn't a single commercial or a TV show without a black man on it now.
Nike has a commercial where bernie mac pretends to be preaching about basketball
another example is pop music, pop music back around 1999 was real POP music, now pop music is R&B even justin timberlake pretends to be R&B now same with britney spears
before it was backstreet boys,nsync, 98 degrees type of pop
yeah that is true...name one person who doesn't have the words memorized to 'hey ya'...
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Jan-04-2004 15:29
DrUg_Tit0
e^(i*pi)+1=0
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
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Originally posted by prolikewhoa
yeah that is true...name one person who doesn't have the words memorized to 'hey ya'...
Umm, doesn't ring a bell...I guess you could count me
Anyway, McD charges about .20$ here for a ketchup. It's so irritating that I can't get as much ketchup as I want, but that I have to think of it in advance and pay for it. Grr, that's why I don't like McD. Besides, they don't have anything bigger than Big Mac here. And Big Mac is actually quite small.
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Jan-04-2004 21:40
Genesis Evolved
LFT
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: On the sofa
Sex sells. We all know it
Jan-05-2004 05:36
prolikewhoa
veteran attention whore
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Berlin
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Originally posted by Genesis Evolved
Sex sells. We all know it
yeah but why is that? is it b/c we think we'll get laid if we buy these products? even though it sucks to admit it, herbal essences has never given me an orgasm...perfume doesn't get me a rough and tumble session on the beach, and fucking yoplait yogurt does NOT get ugly bald white guys hot brunettes...i hate that commercial. and uh...when i wear victoria's secret...i def. don't look like tyra banks. so why does sex sell?
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Jan-05-2004 05:51
PhaseFour
Big Bad Bald Asian Guy
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Sacramento and/or UC Davis, California
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Originally posted by prolikewhoa
yeah but why is that? is it b/c we think we'll get laid if we buy these products? even though it sucks to admit it, herbal essences has never given me an orgasm...perfume doesn't get me a rough and tumble session on the beach, and fucking yoplait yogurt does NOT get ugly bald white guys hot brunettes...i hate that commercial. and uh...when i wear victoria's secret...i def. don't look like tyra banks. so why does sex sell?
because people like me can never get any
Jan-05-2004 05:56
Yoepus
Neo-condimist
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Ketchup fields, Texas
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Originally posted by prolikewhoa
yeah but why is that? is it b/c we think we'll get laid if we buy these products? even though it sucks to admit it, herbal essences has never given me an orgasm...perfume doesn't get me a rough and tumble session on the beach, and fucking yoplait yogurt does NOT get ugly bald white guys hot brunettes...i hate that commercial. and uh...when i wear victoria's secret...i def. don't look like tyra banks. so why does sex sell?
its all based on my superiority and associations psychological theory, which basically strives to say we want to be as superior as possible and we learn at a very early age that the only we we can do this is by association.
I think why sex sells, is because we strive to be sexy (have sex). The advertisement simply takes our natrual stimulus (to be sexy) and conditions this with the product (McD hamburgers mmmm sexy).
Or using my theory you strive to be superior and are taught that superior people use this product, so you infer upon it a positive association.
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