{"id":30900,"date":"2010-12-28T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T15:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=30900"},"modified":"2011-11-21T01:02:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T06:02:14","slug":"dodge-cars-freedom-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/28\/dodge-cars-freedom-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodge Cars = Freedom = America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/Capture33.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31923  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/Capture33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dmitriy T.M. sent in this Dodge ad that associates cars with liberty and, by extension, America itself:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"390\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ezk0e1VL80o&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There are a few problems with this conflation of Dodge with patriotism and Americanness. For one, Dmitriy says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Washington ( as the general) would&#8217;ve never been leading the charge. The commanders always stayed back ( preferably on the high ground) so that they could observe the progress and give commands ( and get away as quickly as possible in case of a loss).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the image of the brave leader charging ahead of his troops into battle is misleading.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, many Dodge vehicles<a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/8301-13746_7-10435936-48.html\" target=\"_blank\"> aren&#8217;t made in the U.S.<\/a> So Dodge wants us to associate its brand with the U.S. in a symbolic way that makes irrelevant, and invisible, where the car is made. What&#8217;s important is that Dodge, founded in the U.S., builds cars that represent a masculinized, tough version of &#8220;freedom,&#8221; and of course, freedom is uniquely American. It reminds me a lot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/08\/11\/the-resurgence-of-pabst-blue-ribbon\/\">symbolic identification Pabst Blue Ribbon drinkers often feel with blue-collar workers<\/a>, an identification that has little to do with the actual production process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitriy T.M. sent in this Dodge ad that associates cars with liberty and, by extension, America itself: There are a few problems with this conflation of Dodge with patriotism and Americanness. For one, Dmitriy says, Washington ( as the general) would&#8217;ve never been leading the charge. The commanders always stayed back ( preferably on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3920,276,221],"class_list":["post-30900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nation-united-states","tag-nationalismpatriotism","tag-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30900","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30900"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42133,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30900\/revisions\/42133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}