We all want to eat healthily. After all, you are what you eat. If you eat bad food you feel sick, and who wants to feel sick? What if you found out that companies have tricked you into eating their foods, these companies have co-opted the government, and convinced society their foods are healthy, when in fact, they are not. In fact, they have used your human psychology and physiology to trick you. We are all part of our society, but this does not mean we all need to conform to this trickery. I am old fashioned when it comes to food. If my grandmother would not eat it, then perhaps I should not as well.
I really do not mind advertising, provided they are clearly marked as advertising. In this case National Post created a news article that is indistinguishable from their other news articles, except at the end of the article I found out that it was an advertisement. I was deceived by the National Post’s native advertising, 2
National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 1
National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 2
National Post deceptive advertising in their Driving section, 2017 Sept 30, photo 3
We did not intend to live in a Chinese enclave when we moved into our Scarborough, Canada home in Toronto. It seemed like when a white elderly couple would move out, a Chinese family would move in. As the years passed, this continued, until 50-60% of our street is now Chinese. It also was not our desire to live in a Chinese enclave. Our intention was to live in a multiculturally mixed neighbourhood.
I write this post after being prodded by this article on Markham Chinese enclaves. Markham is just north of the Scarborough and Toronto border, and can be considered an ethnic extension of Scarborough. In fact we often shop there.
