The New York Times is complaining that there’s too many white faces in the ads.
by http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4722 Edwards
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New York City has a new advertising campaign aimed at tourists called Just Ask The http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3372 white faces in the ads.
“But back to those celebrities. According to NYC & Company, which is behind the campaign, 27 people were chosen to participate in the campaign’s first two phases. Of those, six are black, one if half Korean and the rest — about 80 percent — are white (or, appear to be, anyway). That’s non-Hispanic white, by the way.
“Mind you, the actual percentage of non-Hispanic whites in the city is 35 percent, according to the 2000 Census. Hispanics, who can be any race, accounted for 27 percent, black/African-American 24.5 percent and Asians accounted for 9.7 percent.”
Maybe in the 5 boroughs. But when tourists come to visit NYC, they’re not coming to see http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3978, and the racial demographics of Manhattan are nothing like those of NYC as a whole. Unlike the eggheads at The Times, the tourism department of the city is trying to encourage tourism, not be PC. And they understand perfectly that painting “New York City” as a majority black and Hispanic city would kill tourism. And if the situation were reversed, the paper would fire any writer who pointed out that there were “too many” non-whites in the ads, and then issue a groveling apology.It’s not just the paper that’s unhappy. Some residents are too:
The absence of any Latino celebrities — even Jennifer Lopez, though she and Marc Anthony live on Long Island now — is disheartening but not surprising to those who notice such things.
“Latino culture is invisible in this city,” said Arlene Dávila, a professor at New York University who has written about the intersection of culture, ethnicity and the city. “You have this whitewashed city, a very upscale city, free of ethnicity. This is a city which is more than a quarter Latino, and you cannot find a celebrity who is Latino? Hello!”
Hey Arlene, I have an idea – if you’re so upset by the lack of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2580, why not move to Mexico? I’m sure there are scads of them there.
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