Model Behavior (PLEASE READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING)

[Lax89]

With all due respect, I think you're blanketing a global issue as US/UK-specific. So you know, the BLM movement may have been set off by police brutality, which was (is?) a US problem, but institusionalised racism (the core issue) is undoubtedly global. I've seen it myself, even in countries where the black people are the majority.

And when it comes to keeping up to date with foreign affairs, the only person I'm prepared to give a pass is a bedridden elderly, with no telly. For a 25yo to tell me that they don't know about Brexit, women's protesting against Trump, or BLM, well, that's just sad. Especially in the age of social media.

These issues may seem like they are domestic , but they actually affect or are relevant to a lot of other countries.

@Koko: Now that you mention Argentina, because I seem to recall we could count the amount of black people we encountered on one hand during our entire stay there. That's a 3-week holiday, stretching from BsAs, to Ushuaia, to Calafate! I know it depends on which parts we lived, but still.......

I teach French in Hungary and I talked about the Women's march, nor the students or teacher knew about this. I was shocked but I guess not every country reports on every single event happening in the world.

 

[Lax89]

A follow up
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4386776/Dad-model-dead-room-says-MURDERED.html

This is so sad. RIP. How can they take someone's life like that ?

 

[fashionista-ta]

cnn

I teach French in Hungary and I talked about the Women's march, nor the students or teacher knew about this. I was shocked but I guess not every country reports on every single event happening in the world.

I appreciate your talking about it.

I have to say, the biggest single-day protest in history, with every continent participating, is quite a bit more than 'every single event.' Imagine what it took to get pink paper in Antarctica. I've heard about posterboard shortages in places here, but ... I was pretty darn impressed by the participation of the 7th continent, not to mention the proliferation of handmade pus$yhats on multiple continents. There's a shortage of pink yarn too

 

[MyNameIs]

The only thing more cringy than that Pepsi ad is the faux outrage over it.

 

[eizhowa]

The only thing more cringy than that Pepsi ad is the faux outrage over it.

Well, like I mentioned earlier, it is not so much the ad thats the problem, its the timing(/current political climate). And I think the current political climate could be described in one word as "outrage"

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

The only thing more cringy than that Pepsi ad is the faux outrage over it.

care to explain what's faux about it?

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ I'm curious about that as well.

Personally I may be outraged after I work through the approximately 1,776 items that are higher on my list.

 

[eizhowa]

^ I'm curious about that as well.

Personally I may be outraged after I work through the approximately 1,776 items that are higher on my list.

If you import the list into excel, you can remove the "approximately".

 

[Benn98]

Must say, I'm quite surprised at these figures.....

http://www.thefader.com/2017/04/12/pepsi-favorable-survey-kendall-jenner

 

[kokobombon]

"51% of black people and 75% of Latinx people surveyed said they were more favorable, while only 41% of white people felt that way."

sometimes I feel like all the outrage in social media is like "white guilt"...

 

[eizhowa]

Maybe white people dislike the Kardashian/Jenners more?

 

[Zposen]

Those figures make no sense...the outrage for the most part came from the black community (rightfully so) ...

 

[fashionista-ta]

Must say, I'm quite surprised at these figures.....

http://www.thefader.com/2017/04/12/pepsi-favorable-survey-kendall-jenner

I need another bar in the results, the %age that are officially clueless. In the US, I'm positive it's at least 30% ... at least.

 

[Mea Culpa]

Those figures make no sense...the outrage for the most part came from the black community (rightfully so) ...

This... I really want to know where they got their data...

 

[eizhowa]

This... I really want to know where they got their data...

They do link to the people who made the survey, but the link is broken in my browser.

 

[MulletProof]

^ link.

lol Pepsi probably paid Morning Consultant for that. 80% of the participants are white, the majority based in the South, undereducated, conservative and voted for you-know-who (does it get any more cliché..).. and then we don't even know how all of these characteristics correlate to one another (where are these people that found nothing wrong with pepsi's marketing? or the ones that did? what's the level of education in the races that were polled..). Ah, polls these days... did we learn nothing from brexit, Ben..

 

[eizhowa]

^ link.

lol Pepsi probably paid Morning Consultant for that. 80% of the participants are white, the majority based in the South, undereducated, conservative and voted for you-know-who (does it get any more cliché..).. and then we don't even know how all of these characteristics correlate to one another (where are these people that found nothing wrong with pepsi's marketing? or the ones that did? what's the level of education in the races that were polled..). Ah, polls these days... did we learn nothing from brexit, Ben..

Thanks Wouldn't they be legally obligated to state who funded the research? I honestly don't know.

 

[fashionista-ta]

My first thought was that perhaps this was Pepsi's testing of the ad before they released it. From this study, it looks fine. I mean, surely a company that big doesn't release ads without testing them, right?

Speaking of which, I was at such an event last weekend, and the guy next to me at one point was carrying a guitar. I told him that when I saw the Pepsi ad, one thought I immediately had was that people don't bring musical instruments to protests--but he was proof I was wrong and it wasn't total BS But ... guitar, not cello.

 

[Benn98]

^ link.

lol Pepsi probably paid Morning Consultant for that. 80% of the participants are white, the majority based in the South, undereducated, conservative and voted for you-know-who (does it get any more cliché..).. and then we don't even know how all of these characteristics correlate to one another (where are these people that found nothing wrong with pepsi's marketing? or the ones that did? what's the level of education in the races that were polled..). Ah, polls these days... did we learn nothing from brexit, Ben..

I see you, Mulletproof!!!

Well, actually Fashionista-ta is correct. Normally big corporations roll out these polls before running a campaign. I do regard the demographics here with the utmost suspicion though. Maybe they did in fact scrape the bottom of the barrel for this survey. When you think of it, it all comes together rather plausible now. I mean, maybe the soft drink consumer's brain cells are so fried from all that sugar that they're just lacking in any form of sensitivity.

Also, I believe music plays part of protests, even in the past. Didn't they used to sing and play guitar at protests at the Vietnam war protest? Joan Baez, and all those people? Also, the Dixie Chicks against Bush. I seem to recall seeing pictures like these.

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ I am too young to remember Vietnam protests ... the Dixie Chicks made their comments about Bush in concert.

The ad was showing chamber music though, right?