{"id":4021,"date":"2008-11-12T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:52:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:52:12","slug":"tabbies-for-toyota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/12\/tabbies-for-toyota\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabbies for Toyota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Australian commercial for Toyota Corolla (found <a href=\"http:\/\/adweek.blogs.com\/adfreak\/2008\/11\/humans-with-big-cat-heads-invade-australia.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) includes a homogenous, racialized out-group.\u00a0 More after the video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ckb-wUHj9WU[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The term &#8220;out-group homogeneity&#8221; refers to the way in which members of an in-group tend to overestimate the extent to which members of an out-group are all alike.\u00a0 I suppose we don&#8217;t know what good kitty&#8217;s friends look like (do they all look exactly like him?), but we certainly have the presentation of an\u00a0out-group that is both\u00a0categorically different from\u00a0good kitty and\u00a0homogeneously so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I would also like to suggest that that out-group is racialized.\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t use just any kind of cat to represent bad kitties, but a dark-colored cat.\u00a0\u00a0 (If I know my cats, the bad &#8220;guys&#8221; in this video are Russian Blues.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Australian commercial for Toyota Corolla (found here) includes a homogenous, racialized out-group.\u00a0 More after the video: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ckb-wUHj9WU[\/youtube] The term &#8220;out-group homogeneity&#8221; refers to the way in which members of an in-group tend to overestimate the extent to which members of an out-group are all alike.\u00a0 I suppose we don&#8217;t know what good kitty&#8217;s friends [&hellip;]<\/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":[155,1765,221,285,37,133],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-nation-australia","tag-cars","tag-raceethnicity","tag-social-psychology","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","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=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29909,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/29909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}