“Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,.” PeopleWayUseArtistCultureLanguageMaterialsAdsInsistingLogosArtists And WritersCulture And Language Author:Naomi Klein
“Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major industry and the middle class bought radios to hear the ads and cars to get to the stores. ... But there is no question that the consumer culture had begun to crowd out all other cultural possibilities by the years following World War II.” WorldYearsWarCultureClassMiddleCarPossibilityIndustryMajorsTwentiesRadioCrowdsFollowingStoresAdvertisingConsumersWar Of The WorldsMiddle ClassHistorianAdsWorld War IiWorld War IConsumerismAmerican CultureConsumer Culture Book:FEAR OF FALLING Source: FEAR OF FALLING
“Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.” CultureWhiteWonderfulTvsBabyCouplePopulationCreditCardsChineseAdsMainstreamWonderful ThingsCredit CardChinese Culture Author:Iris Chang
“Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.” MenFormCultureBeliefIssuesCenturyHigherProveEqualOppositesPrejudiceMethodGuiltyFranceRealmsStatisticsAdsMeasurementIndiana Author:Richard M. Weaver