Marketing IV: via threepunchstuff

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The "Hispanic" market is different. Radio and TV are a lot more raw, maybe for cultural reasons and certainly because the FCC isn't listening to much. And advertising crosses lines that wouldn't be crossed in whitey ads:

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[goldfischegirl.livejournal.com]

yeah man, when i was in spain people told the most blatantly racist jokes, abd EVERYONE laughed. it was pretty awful.

[threepunchstuff.livejournal.com]

The Asian market is similar. A Chinese friend once showed me a tube of "Darkie Toothpaste," with its Al Jolson-like mascot.

One of my professors used the term "racial triangulation" to describe this phenomenon.

[lil-om.livejournal.com]

thats pretty rad.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

You might want to send this in to VICE. They do a page on inappropriate products from all over the world.

[pilarcruz.livejournal.com]

When I was going to school at Yonsei (in Kolea, 2002), there was this ad on TV showing some cartoon terrorists flying a plane into a building, but then superman comes and throws a copy of the Joong Ang Ilbo (a newspaper) over the cockpit window and saves the day.

My students in Korea sometimes wanted to name themselves "Terrorbomb."

[nebris.livejournal.com]

Forward that to Aljazeera. lol

~M~

[amorpoeta.livejournal.com]

Had to look up what Quipe was. It's basically a stuffed matza ball from Argentina.