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SternSkipper -> RE: Civil Rights Movement- what if it never happened? (6/20/2011 4:45:59 PM)
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Never mind black vs white civil rights for a moment and reach into cross border culture. Say the Mexicans for instance hadn't had the participation/ benefit of the civil rights movement. Beyond the cheap labor/virtual slavery issues, we wouldn't be seeing the playing out of corporations creating controversy over a vodka ad aired in Mexico and nostalgia about borders ... check this video out, it's worth the few minutes of human-fistula Lou Dobbs you have to tolerate to get to the part where you get to listen to Absolute Vodka's voicemail disclaimer listen carefully to their final sentence.. it's rich:
http://youtu.be/0Oi7JEObPVA
My point is simply that without the civil; rights movement, would mexico even be a place where American companies developed marketing for? Never mind their shitty ("psst ... we're not in America now, so we can promote the 'chicano movement').
Another question I would ask is how far along would the 'gay rights' and feminist movements have come in the wake of the black/white struggle. Or is the intention of the assignment to lump all the various 'rights' movements together?
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