[immadashell]

It’s time for the marketing industry to recognize that people don’t identify with (and don’t buy) product commercials depicting people who don’t look like themselves.

[alexander_busek]

It’s time for the marketing industry to recognize that people don’t identify with (and don’t buy) product commercials depicting people who don’t look like themselves.

I disagree.

I, personally, have no problem purchasing products marketed by people who don't look like me - as long as there's no reason to suspect that the given ad isn't intentionally trying to distort reality (e.g., by having disproportionately more "minorities" hawking the products than is reflected in real life).

I don't cotton to being "re-educated," shamed, or gaslighted.

Regards,

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It's time for the marketing industry to recognize that people don't identify with (and don't buy) product commercials depicting people who don't look like themselves.

Of course they do. In fact some of the most successful commercials contain no people at all.

What they do not do is buy products from commercials that jeer or sneer at them.

[MayflowerMadam]

I read a few reports that show that blacks don’t want to buy stuff being advertised by white people, but white people don’t care. More racism and hating on “Whitey”.