they should rally around personalities.
As the article stated earlier, the market is more diverse than ever. Allow your brand to have a distinct identity - it can appeal to its own niche by crafting its image rather than pandering to the widest demographic. Could this mean that true authenticity necessitates not being universally accessible or likable?
Trump is authentic. He seems genuine to a large portion of the American electorate.
Many argue that this is how he won the presidency. His unconventional statements and views made people believe he was unfiltered and authentic; yet perhaps they were specifically filtered to create this effect.
It's not very authentic to spend huge budgets talking about how authentic your brand
This is arguing that authenticity cannot require effort. It is inherently natural to whatever is characterized by it.
most valid automobile, genuine pair of sneakers ordependable bottle of vodka.
How are we being graded on the "quality" of our annotations - what if something that is low in quality is high in authenticity?
Not only are we not smarter than them,we're falling into rhetorical pits that they've dug for us.
Ironically, the former clause in this sentence sounds like a rhetorical pit for its audience - conceding the audience's authority and superior capacity to create a sense of trust.
progressive marketing acknowledges the wildly advanced state of mindtoday's consumer possesses and, furthermore, pays respect to it
"Pays respect to it"? Or finds alternative ways to manipulate it?
sight of the 'naturalness' with which newspapers, art and common sense constantly dress up a reality which, even though it is the one we live in, is undoubtedly determined by history.
This is a rather disheartening assertion to make about our world, but it is hard to refute satisfactorily. We like to feel that civilization has progressed past misrepresentation and into an age of opportunity, but perhaps we have simply made this misrepresentation more subtle and more acceptable.
I was of course guided by my own current interests
Like in the Washington Post's article about ethnic food, we remain ignorant to the generalizations we make about cultures until we actually gain an interest in them.
Migration of poor people from your country and your culture has to endbefore America accords you prestige. Chinese food has been where it is,before America accords you prestige
This is saying that to be accepted as equal in American culture, your home country must stop transporting undesirables. While this isn't necessarily true, there are historical trends to substantiate this claim.
Germans climbed up in the social ladder, thatchanged, as it did for Italian food, and many others.changed, as it did for Italian food, and many others
As a culture of people rises up the social ranks, so does their culture.
If it appears to be authentic, it isauthentic to us.authentic to us
Presentation over substance?
Authentic is a relative term
Very true. Some people take authentic cuisine to mean created by chefs of the culture it originated from, while others take it as tasting like the culture's traditional food. It's hard to set circumstances for authenticity, even for food.
What ends up happening is they hidetechnical deficiencies behind salt, butter, and fat. That's the food we havetechnical deficiencies behind salt, butter, and fat. That's the food we havegotten used to. Here, Indian food is associated with relatively greasy, spicy,gotten used to.
Indian food is accidentally conforming to the archetypal fatty American foods we typically consume. Our perception of it as inferior is preventing restaurants from actually producing quality cuisine, reiterating Charles Taylor's argument of mis-recognition generating conformity to these established negative stereotypes.
The more we know about a culture, themore we can understand about its nuance. That's why you'll hear peoplemore we can understand about its nuance
It's hard to specialize when you haven't yet been familiarized with the broad overview.
she did not know what she did not know, and that's kindof the pitfall here.of the pitfall here.
Sounds like a bit of a straw-man argument...
I think what's happening is some people are beginning to get the sensethat the word ethnic is this weird catch-all category that isn't usefulthat the word ethnic is this weird catch-all category that isn't usefulanymore, that we should be talking more about Indian food or Thai food oranymore
Perhaps this is part of the issue with the perceived inferiority of "ethnic food"; when its generalized to where its defining characteristic is being "not from here", there's little acknowledging how diverse and delicious it can be on its own merit.
But behind our public enthusiasm for Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Ethiopian,Korean, and the many other foreign cuisines that can be enjoyed in cities likeKorean, and the many other foreign cuisines that can be enjoyed in cities likeNew York, there is also private, and yet pronounced, form of bias, a subtleNew York
Interesting how there can be such a blend of food cultures in one city... Is urban life truly a melting pot or simply pandering to the tourists' desire for an "experience"?
Their own self-depreciation, on thisview, becomes one of the most potent instruments of theirown oppression
Negative-impact, positive feedback loop
The crucial principle was that there should be no divi-sion between performers and spectators, but that all should be seen by all.
Does the lack of privacy prescribed by our elevated exposure to media create more or less of a division between performer and spectator? On one hand, there is more knowledge of artist's real lives and less room to hide. On the other, sensationalism and the need to entertain and excite encourages fabrication and exaggeration of celebrities' lives, effectively putting on yet another show for the designated spectators.
society takes a turn toward corruption and injustice,when people begin to desire preferential esteem
Being defined by one's class/social standing leads to this pursuit of a "grander" identity.
In premodern times, people didn’t speak of “identity” and“recognition”—not because people didn’t have (what wecall) identities, or because these didn’t depend on recogni-tion, but rather because these were then too unproblematicto be thematized as such
Identity and recognition have been developing and evolving with humanity/civilization.
Thus my discovering my own identity doesn’t mean that Iwork it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dia-logue, partly overt, partly internal, with others
One's true nature is not seen through action, but reaction.
Compton [existed] in many ways in the music to sell records
A geographic location being turned into an exploitable concept for the music industry... much like the idea of the gangsta rapper.
their individual faces with identical stern.
Much like the cultural phenomena of rap itself - regional rappers intimidating and challenging one another, yet ironically embodying the same spirit and sound.
‘history decays intoimages, not stories’
We begin to see history not as an unraveling epic with each thread weaving into the next, but rather as a series of isolated events without proper context.
historically ‘innocent’ and ‘besieged’ American whiteness
The whiteness of country music can be partially attributed to its recurring themes of perserverance through troubled times and notions of purity and absence of guilt. Country projects the idea of Americans as victims set on overthrowing their oppression.
For some to have honor in this sense, it is essential that noteveryone have it
This reminds me of the millennial trend of handing out participation awards - if everyone is receiving "honor", doesn't it lose its value?
iscourse of recognition and identitycame to seem familiar
Similar to Foucault's claims about the development of processes of confession
our identity is partly shaped by recognition or its ab-sence, often by themisrecognition of others,
Identity is influenced by how it is perceived, drawing parallels to the argument for nurture over nature.
The Reader will find that personifications of abstract ideas rarely occur in these volumes; and are utterly rejected, as an ordinary device to elevate the style, and raise it above prose. My purpose was to imitate, and, as far as possible, to adopt the very language of men; and assuredly such personifications do not make any natural or regular part of that language.
3) In this excerpt, Wordsworth is advocating the "Art imitates Life" approach to writing. While personification of an abstract idea can add weight and depth to a concept, it can also be seen as foreign and even pompous to the average colloquial man.
their rank in society and the sameness and narrow circle of their intercourse, being less under the influence of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions
1) Wordsworth is observing another trend that has persisted even into contemporary times. The divide between rich and poor continues to diminish. Access to language and literature, once a luxury exclusive to the wealthy elite, is now readily available to the general masses. Literary works have even tempered their perspectives to appeal to this expanding market.
their rank in society and the sameness and narrow circle of their intercourse, being less under the influence of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions
2) Wordsworth is implementing prolepsis here to realign his audience's expectations. He will be tackling language from a new, less structured viewpoint, so he addresses any confusion or frustration before delving into his argument.
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