There's an interesting op-ed piece in the NY Times today about the blending of races in this country. While it's a typically American phenomenon to market an enthnically diverse background as a trend, it does go to show how the old paradigms are changing. As a father of biracial children, I find it encouraging.
"Today what's ethnically neutral, diverse or ambiguous has tremendous appeal," said Ron Berger, the chief executive of Euro RSCG MVBMS Partners in New York, an advertising agency and trend research company whose clients include Polaroid and Yahoo. "Both in the mainstream and at the high end of the marketplace, what is perceived as good, desirable, successful is often a face whose heritage is hard to pin down." Ambiguity is chic, especially among the under-25 members of Generation Y, the most racially diverse population in the nation's history. Teen People's current issue, devoted to beauty, features makeovers of girls whose backgrounds are identified on full-page head shots as "Puerto Rican and Italian-American" and "Finnish-German-Irish- and Scotch-American."
The link to the complete article is here:
many blessings,
Dave Lambert
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