Here are two ads for http://www.salesgenie.com/SalesGenie/Index.aspx?bas_vendor=99831, both aired during tonight's Super Bowl and both, for no apparent reason, using animated characters with thick accents--in the first Indian, in the second, Chinese.
SalesGenie Superbowl Commercial: Boss Threatens to Fire Salesman
Add to My Profile More Videos
Sales Genie Super Bowl Commercial
Add to My Profile More Videos
Doing our best here at Sociological Images to provide immediate commentary!
Images for use in sociology (and related) classes.
Ethnicity and Accents in Super Bowl XLII Ad
Posted by Gwen Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 7:47 PM Labels: animals/nature, humor, marketing, race/ethnicity, work
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
If you have an image you'd like to see posted, email Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp at socimages@thesocietypages.org.
Subscribe
Labels
- ***about us*** (1)
- ***kudos*** (12)
- ***our favorites*** (46)
- ***requests*** (3)
- academia (6)
- activism (19)
- Afghanistan (1)
- aging (9)
- alcohol (19)
- animals/nature (27)
- Australia (2)
- beauty (45)
- bodies (92)
- Brazil (1)
- Britain (3)
- capitalism (13)
- cars (24)
- celebrity (11)
- change (18)
- children/youth (49)
- China (2)
- class (30)
- clothes/fashion (38)
- commodification (52)
- communism (2)
- consumption (27)
- cosmetic surgery (22)
- cross-cultural (6)
- cultural imperialism/(neo)colonialism (4)
- death (5)
- democracy (3)
- demography (6)
- diet/exercise industry (5)
- discourse/rhetoric (12)
- drugs (5)
- economics (9)
- education (6)
- election 2008 (11)
- emotion work (3)
- environmental sociology (7)
- ethnocentrism (1)
- fat (21)
- feminism (25)
- food (41)
- foreign policy (3)
- France (3)
- gender (293)
- geography (2)
- Germany (1)
- Ghana (1)
- globalization (8)
- guns (9)
- hair (14)
- health/medicine (45)
- history (37)
- holidays (10)
- housework (10)
- humor (23)
- hygiene (16)
- immigration (4)
- imperialism (1)
- India (2)
- intelligence (1)
- international comparisons (10)
- intersex (1)
- Ireland (1)
- Israel (1)
- Italy (5)
- Japan (5)
- jewelry (11)
- Kenya (1)
- knowledge (2)
- law/crime (17)
- love (11)
- maps (3)
- marketing (88)
- marriage/family (43)
- media (27)
- mental illness (2)
- methods/use of data (11)
- Mexico (1)
- multiculturalism (6)
- music (10)
- nationalism/patriotism (7)
- natural disaster (2)
- objectification (63)
- opinion (3)
- perfume/cologne (9)
- politics (37)
- porn (13)
- prejudice/discrimination (25)
- public service announcements (18)
- race/ethnicity (101)
- rape (13)
- re-touching (6)
- religion (16)
- reproduction/abortion (12)
- residential segregation (1)
- resistance (16)
- science/technology (19)
- sex (128)
- sex work (3)
- sexual orientation (14)
- smoking (3)
- social construction (4)
- social movement (3)
- social networks (4)
- social psychology (9)
- South Africa (1)
- Spain (2)
- sports (14)
- state comparisons (6)
- Sudan (1)
- Sweden (2)
- Switzerland (1)
- terrorism (3)
- Thailand (3)
- the state (5)
- toys (16)
- transgender (2)
- travel/tourism (4)
- violence (38)
- war/military (16)
- work (18)
Recent Comments
Blog Archive
-
▼
2008 (348)
-
▼
February (79)
- The (In)Famous June 1978 Hustler Cover
- Popular Songs Represented In Figures And Charts
- Incarceration Rates In the U.S. And Elsewhere
- Disney Princess TV
- Kitchen Cabinets with Naked Woman on Front
- Production, Consumption, And Reproduction
- "Isn't It Time Women Stood Up?"
- Commodifying the Women's Movement
- REQUEST: Marxist (?) Poster About The Reproduction...
- 1936 Plastic Surgery Ad
- "Sexy Stilettos"
- Differential Use Of E-Networks Across The Globe
- Downturn In Real Wages
- Mental Illness Steals Your Child's True Self
- French Ad Uses Sex to Argue for Changing Housing P...
- 1927 Wimbledon Ad: Using Women's Progress to Sell
- Cornel West On MTV
- "Bitch Is The New Black"
- Manipulated Women And High Fashion
- Ritalin for Moms
- Kudos
- Pursuing Sex with a Caddy
- It's A Brave New World
- The Power Of The Photo-Op
- 'Cause Rape Is Funny
- Virginia Slims Ads: Commodifying Freedom
- Who Gets To Decide What Counts As A Name?
- Comics For Contraception
- A Long Way Since Comstock
- Maps And Perceptions Of The World
- Another Screaming Kid For Birth Control
- Violence Is Sexy
- Some Graphs of Trends in Cosmetic Surgery
- Request
- Fear Mongering And Objectification...
- Individual Versus Group Attribution
- an Urban Dictionary look at campaign politics
- Cosmetic Surgery Ads
- Cartier Ad: How Far [Into Debt] Would You Go for L...
- Children Are A Screaming Burden
- A Quick Lesson In Production And Consumption
- Men's Bodies Are Allowed To Grow Up
- I Love My Roomba, But...
- More Sexualized Burqa-Clad Women
- Lil' Kim in a Sexualized Burqa
- Website Lets You Create Tailored Maps to Display D...
- Penis Of Knowledge
- Advertisers Are Us
- CAUTION: Labiaplasty (Vaginal Cosmetic Surgery) We...
- Kudos
- Lookin' Good for Jesus Beauty Products
- Axe Body Spray Ad: Hillary as a Besotted Schoolgirl
- Anti-Child Abuse PSAs
- "Your Body": Men Are People And Women Are Women
- Insult Comedy
- Changing Male Body Ideals
- Hypersexualizing Little Girls So As To Discourage ...
- Weird Wonderbra Ads from Singapore
- Using Sex to Sell Microsoft XP
- Paris Hilton Carl's Jr. Ad
- Just For Men Ad Plays on Men's Fear about Dating
- Another Just For Men Hair Dye Ad: Former Athlete G...
- Using Women's Bodies to Sell Shoes
- Then Is Now
- Correlations Of IQ With Income And Wealth
- Weight Watchers Targets Men
- U.S. Fertility Rate Reaches Replacement Level
- There Are No Business Travelers, Only Male And Fem...
- Dell Computer Super Bowl Ad: Buy the Right Product...
- "Witch Doctor" in Super Bowl Ad
- Ethnicity and Accents in Super Bowl XLII Ad
- In Honor Of The Superbowl...
- t-shirts for babies and children
- Just For Men Hair Dye Ad Plays on Career Insecurity
- Class Inequality Superimposed On Theoretical Height
- Rich Girl Angst
- Hasbro Teachers Girls to Be Good Housewives
- What Have The Unions Ever Done For Us?
- "DDT Is Good For Me-e-e!"
-
▼
February (79)
0 comments:
Post a Comment