Race and Ethnicity in New York

Ethnic Studies 125.FS002, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. SPRING 2010. Analyzing the intersections of race, culture, class, gender, and ethnicity in New York. How much of this do we carry with ourselves? Who are you? Who am I? Who are we? Respond to your readings. Respond to your classes. Respond to each other.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Umn.... Racist Much?

I was watching random youtube vids, to try to post the link to my post from the other day and I found this commercial, it’s from Volkswagen, they are attempting to describe how tough their new cars are. But notice the guy getting into the car; he seems to be clearly Arabic (at least to me). And then notice what he is doing AND who he is attempting to do it to!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6rBrJhWAfk

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5 comments:

  1. j.alexanderMarch 24, 2010 at 10:54 AM

    hahahah. that's funny. yea, it's racist but terrorists left a bad imprint therefore these commercials exist.

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  2. jtruglioMarch 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM

    True, but it’s wrong to make a joke out of something like terrorism because that is the first step on accepting it.

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  3. AntonioVMarch 24, 2010 at 1:19 PM

    listen terrorism has been here for a long time. Accepting terrorism is if you let what the act of terrorism is trying to do. Plus also that commercial is banned, but i think it was more sterotyping more than anything

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  4. MFNMarch 25, 2010 at 5:54 AM

    This commercial, if it is real, is a lot like that clip we saw yesterday after Yissel's and Ne'Andrea's presentation.

    Watching random Youtube videos?

    What about all the great stuff that is historical or tries to present material from our class in a more truthful way?

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  5. jtruglioMarch 29, 2010 at 11:51 AM

    well it was just something i came across, i was not looking for anything specific for this class.

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