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Advertising and People of Color

This article reminded me that many times we watch television and we don’t realize how the media affects our opinions. The article gives a lot of examples of advertising that offends people racially. Many times we watch all this commercials and we don’t think about what they really mean. They make stereotypes about different races and cultures look normal and true.
Even though the article gave so many examples of advertising of this kind I personally couldn’t come up with a current commercial that portrays people in a racist way. Maybe I am just used to all of them and I don’t notice the offensive parts.

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