Bad ice served with a MultiCultClassics Monologue…
• Back in the day, there was controversy surrounding subliminal advertising, with lurid imagery allegedly appearing in ice cubes. Now it seems there’s much worse stuff in ice, particularly ice served at fast food restaurants. A 12-year-old kid’s science project discovered that 70% of the time, ice from fast food joints is dirtier than toilet water. Wonder if the same figure applies to the food at fast food joints.
• U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox spent Presidents’ Day brainstorming about border security. Bush probably later sent Fox a shipment of fast food ice.
• The New York Times published a story about the impact of multiculturalism on marketing. Multicultural marketing manager for Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands David Rodriguez said, “In many cases, we will very much acknowledge that what is multicultural today very much will be general market tomorrow.” Click on the essay title above to read the full story.
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Interesting link from the New York Times, HighJive, especially the comments about Chinese New Year. Down here in New Zealand, for the last few years, Chinese New Year stamps have become normal, the last issue of the outgoing (Gregorian calendar) year, or the first of the next one. Here’s hoping the new normal will continue to emerge—right now, we celebrate our differences, but we tend to do so by continuing to perceive some of them as “foreign”.
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