{"id":21203,"date":"2010-04-06T10:14:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=21203"},"modified":"2013-12-15T03:36:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T08:36:13","slug":"colonel-sanders-mistaken-for-uncle-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/04\/06\/colonel-sanders-mistaken-for-uncle-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonel Sanders Mistaken for Uncle Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Buzzfeed<\/a>, Peggy posted this photo of a piece of kitsch she found on sale in Japan:<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Dmitiry for the link!\u00a0 To clarify…<\/p>\n

Uncle Sam<\/a>, icon of American freedom:<\/p>\n

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Colonel Sanders<\/a>, mascot for the fast food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken (the suit is the giveaway):<\/p>\n

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So what does this mean?\u00a0 Well, perhaps nothing.\u00a0 But it suggests that America is associated with capitalism and greasy food at least as much as the idea of freedom.\u00a0 It also means that, at least in this instance, the U.S. has lost control of its brand.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at Buzzfeed, Peggy posted this photo of a piece of kitsch she found on sale in Japan: Thanks to Dmitiry for the link!\u00a0 To clarify… Uncle Sam, icon of American freedom: Colonel Sanders, mascot for the fast food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken (the suit is the giveaway): So what does this mean?\u00a0 Well, perhaps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,1821,3920,276,23622],"class_list":["post-21203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-nation-japan","tag-nation-united-states","tag-nationalismpatriotism","tag-social-construction-symbols"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21203"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60329,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21203\/revisions\/60329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}