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delalluvia:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on August 11, 2009, 06:19:43 pm ---One argument about the Kerrigan/Yamaguchi thing is that Kerrigan overcome even greater obstacles than the other skating contestants because of having had to recover from having had her knee brutally clubbed (a great American "triumph over adversity" story). More to the point, she was already a household-name celeb because of the knee-clubbing.
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I should have included more of the Wikipedia article. The fact that Nancy Kerrigan got more endorsements than Yamaguchi was before the knee-clubbing incident.
delalluvia:
Milo does have a point.
There are Kentucky Fried Chickens and McDonalds' from here to the Great Wall of China because many people want the same stuff they get at home. Many people are not interested in trying something new everywhere they go. Some people are traveling just to get from one place to another, not to experience local flavor.
Jeez, how many CSI TV shows are there? People like the same format of storytelling. People like movie sequels because they feel at home with the same characters.
Yes, change and diversity and experimentation is good for everyone. But there is a market and a demand for what is familiar and comfortable as well.
LauraGigs:
milomorris:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on August 11, 2009, 06:19:43 pm ---People in the advertising industry are are often individually pretty progressive, but they in turn are at the mercy of their clients. And CEOs of old-school, family-owned companies are notoriously conservative and don't dare do anything the slightest bit imaginative, or new.
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Excellent point. When I was at my last ad agency, we were working on a print campaign for a major cosmetics company who was about to launch a set of new sunblocks. We presented the president with the photos of about a dozen children of different ethnic backgrounds. We needed him to pick 3 (one for each of the products). He picked the two blond kids, and said we needed to come up with a third blond kid. So we did as we were told. The Creative Director for the agency was so mad you could have fried an egg on his bald head. His design called for one blonde kid, a latin kid with dark hair, and a redhead.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: LauraGigs on August 11, 2009, 06:29:51 pm ---
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Oh, boy and HOW!!!
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