I just finished reading “Going for the Look, but Risking
Discrimination” and I am kind of familiar with this controversial situation
going around the world. Basically the
article “Going for the Look, but Risking Discrimination” talks about stores and
businesses hiring people by the way they look, by their appearance and especially
by the “American style” and not for their knowledge and experience that is
something that a business should look in the people they are hiring. This article (“Going for the Look, but
Risking Discrimination”) contains a few examples of people trying to find a job
that actually they have the experience and knowledge about the job tasks and
they had been rejected because they do not fit in with the “classic American”
style businesses and companies are looking for, just because those companies, businesses,
stores, etc. think that by hiring persons that have good looking, good
experience and have the “classic American” style customers are going to buy
their products and their businesses’ sales are going to go up. Sadly this is true, people buy things just
because they see propaganda on TV or in the same stores, or even normal people with
nice look, nice faces wearing clothes and shoes looking like models, like on
the Billboards or Nuestra Belleza (Beauty Contest) they see the way clothes and
shoes look on them and they like it so they buy those clothes and shoes thinking
they are going to look just like them or even better. No matter what the purpose think or do they always
going to buy products because of the good convincible propaganda businesses make.
From my own point of view all this thing
about the good looking is true. In all
the stores that I go there always white people working just because they qualify
for the “classic American” style, but not all the stores, companies or businesses
do the same thing as the other companies, some stores that I’ve been in like
Levi’s, that is a store where the “classic American style” does not work, the
employees in there are Mexicans Americans, Asian Americans , and some white
people; but of course they have a good looking and actually they wear Levi’s
products making the customers think that Levis’ products look good on every
person that wears them. Some businesses have
diversity among their employees and that’s a very good thing because now in
days businesses need to have some bilingual employees in any case a customer comes
into the store or business and does not have the knowledge of English, also businesses
should have on mind that having to hire employees with good looking but not
having knowledge at all of the tasks that have to be done it can bring them a
lot of problems with their business. Well-known stores are like a models’
foot-bridge,
because you basically will find walking billboards around the store. The
marketing world is very competitive because now every company has its own
models, and people go to those stores where they will find the one who like
them most. Now to convince someone to buy something is very easy, because the
company just has to have an attractive representative wearing the products and
that is it. Appearance is something that counts a lot in today’s world because
you will get a job depending on how presentable you are. People will treat you
based on your outward show.
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