Dec 08, 2002 17:15
Noted interesting, present-day specific, cultural interaction today while conducting a causal, socio- ethnographic study. Fourteen, female, anglo-american, women between the ages of thirty and forty-five were selling predecorated, faux, christmas trees, in true Fordian form. The subjects were wrapping the, optional two size, trees in industrial-grade, plastic wrap and card stock boxing. Each tree was unique in its decorative style with an extensive range including "under the sea with starfish", "balls, canes, and baby stockings", "reindeer antlers" and the "big gay Al tree".
The subjects appeared to represent a common social economic demographic of the southeastern United States. Seventh generation, Baptist, suburbanite, brickhouse dwelling, two children, two car, one sedan, one suv standard post-nuclear family. 85.2% of the subjects wore jeans and 92.3% wore white tennis shoes. 63.9% wore their hair shoulder length and 78.1% wore solid color upper body clothing.
The women were working at a frenzied pace as the targeted consumer was buying into the "You pick the theme. We box it!" prefab, christmas trees. This hive of activity was dynamically, bi-matrixed by two culturally anti-analogous representatives.
The first juxtaposition was a row of 14 individual counter-staff, at the 9 food court restaurants, directly beside the christmas tree assemblage point. The counter-staff subjects represented a diametric socio-economical demographic than the first pool of subjects, from herein referred to as Pool 1.
Pool 2 subjects ranged in age from 20-35, and appeared to be first generational American or non U.S citizens, primarily eastern european and southeastern asian. 100% of the uniforms worn by this group were of solid color and all primary. 85.2% of Pool 2 were male subjects. The food court's business was extremely slow and managers were resorting to meat-on-a-stick divisional marketing tactics. An air of quiet solitude connected the vendors as an innherantly different leit motif than the holiday cheer which unified the subjects of Pool 1. A relative 78.1% of Pool 2 were of non-Christian heritage and would be experiencing the American national consumer season comparatively adjunctly to that of Pool 1.
The second juxtaposition to Pool 1, and the ideological Inonu of the triad was a row of 14 banners, hanging from the ceiling, depicting the silhouetted busts of the city's founding patriarchs and matriarchs. Pool 3, which included the likes of Abraham Lincoln Lewis, William Barnett and Eliza Hudnell, fashioned in dignitary style, patiently overlooked the events below. The Pool 3 subjects, unlike Pools 1 and 2, ranged in time orientation between 1850 and 1950. Similarly, this constituted a wide variance in generational Americanism from first generational to that of fifth generational. 21.3% of the subjects in Pool 3 were of African origin. 78.1% of the subjects were male. These subjects would have experienced the holiday throngs on such multiple, variant, socio-economical, time degrees that they act as the crux of this causal, anthropological, observation. In that we are primarily the ends of our relative means of time, social orientation, economical stature and regional location.