"More aspirational but less white...” 🤦🏽‍♂️

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100% of the most awkward client calls I've been on were ones with old white people assessing the diversity of stock photos.

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I’m confused. Why is this a bad thing? Showcasing minorities as successful? As a brown person, I always love seeing Asians featured in more aspirational settings.

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was on a conference call with a midwestern client choosing image selects from a photo shoot, from which they of course wanted diversity among the images we chose. When we got to one particular image, she (the client) said (in a very thick midwestern accent): "Well that person could be white OR Eye-talian"
Maybe they don't have as many of us Eye-talians out there as I thought... 😂

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What does that even mean??

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