A DOWNSIDE TO ADVERTISING'S RACIAL MIX?

EXCEPTIONS TO STEREOTYPES ATTRACT ATTENTION, AS BY USING...

Class hostility: 

An arrogant member of the elite

 An angry Black 

Male models who fit other rules: 

• Boys whose coiffures stand out

Bus stop, rue Jeanne d'Arc, 13th, July 2023

Métro stop in the 11th, November 2023

•  Men with an intellectual look to sell glasses:

Optician's window, rue de la Goutte d'Or, 18th, August 2022

 

   Métro in the east, May 2023

Bastille, June 2023

 

Unconventional women

•  The men above are positive but this figure is odd:

Rue Jeanne d'Arc, 13th, March 2024

• A heavy model at a mall says that all are welcome:

 Italie 2, 13th, October 2023 

But at the entry to the mall the stereotype reappears: 

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Color prejudice is challenged not as appreciation for difference, but because there is none.

 Even gender can vanish:

Window of an Asian hairdresser, rue Nationale, 13th, June

Behind opposition to prejudice

can be the wish to create

interchangeable consumers. 

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