{"id":3297,"date":"2005-05-20T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/20\/pepsi-gives-america-the-finger\/"},"modified":"2005-05-20T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T19:04:07","slug":"pepsi-gives-america-the-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/20\/pepsi-gives-america-the-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepsi gives America the finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepsico.com\/msgfromindra.shtml\">Damage control<\/a> notwithstanding, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepsico.com\/Speech-ColumbiaBusinessSchool.pdf\">the Pepsi chick&#8217;s speech <\/a> did sound vaguely insulting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What is most crucial to my analogy of the five fingers as the five major continents, is that each of us in the U.S. \u2013 the long middle finger \u2013 must be careful that when we extend our arm in either a business or political sense, we take pains to assure we are giving a hand \u2026 not the finger. Sometimes this is very difficult. Because the U.S. \u2013 the middle finger \u2013 sticks out so much, we can send the wrong message unintentionally.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I think this is how the rest of the world looks at the U.S. right now. Not as part of the hand \u2013 giving strength and purpose to the rest of the fingers \u2013 but, instead, scratching our nose and sending a far different signal.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If America&#8217;s such a rotten place, why move here all the way from Madras? That being said, the reaction from Power Line, Hewitt, Malkin, and the rest of the Creationist Right is a bit extreme. High-born South Indian women are taught to be arrogant (Arundhati Roy) and don&#8217;t generally realize how others see them. Perhaps that&#8217;s the point, that America is like a high-born South Indian woman. I can see that.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damage control notwithstanding, the Pepsi chick&#8217;s speech did sound vaguely insulting: What is most crucial to my analogy of the five fingers as the five major continents, is that each of us in the U.S. \u2013 the long middle finger \u2013 must be careful that when we extend our arm in either a business or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/20\/pepsi-gives-america-the-finger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pepsi gives America the finger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Rb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}