Notes from Germany
I am an American expat living in Germany. It's a far away land on the other side of the ocean. It's interesting and often weird here. If you read this and want to comment then email me at blog(the at symbol)chillmost.com. If you find any spelling or grammar mistakes, you can keep them.
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Weird. I see an ad in "Der Spiegel" for Mazda. There is a red sports car, the new RX-8, blasting around a corner. Up in the right corner there is a barely visible face of the communist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara. He's looking down approvingly like a some sort of spirit from the afterlife. The tag line is, "How does one start a revolution? With the ignition key."
Although it is pretty cheesy it shows what kind of pop-icon revolutionary freedom fighter status Che has over here. I don't think, and I could be wrong, that you would see and ad like this in America. Using images of evil commies to help sell cars? In America? Doubt it. Just shedding light on a cultural difference.
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