Re: Re:New Subway Commercials

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They are caucasian and hispanic. We actually don't have very many African

American students at our school. It's more Eastern European, Asian,

Hispanic, and Western European.

At 10:40 PM 11/16/2004, Kaplan Sommer wrote:

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>Just curious if the pudgy girls you speak of are white or African-American.

>There's been a lot written about how overweight African-American girls have

>better self-images, and fewer eating disorders than their white

>counterparts. I imagine the flip side is that they are less motivated to

>change their habits. Don't know the racial makeup of your students, but I

>was wondering if you observed the same thing.

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>Another interesting thing is that many of my pudgy girls who wear the

>tight fitting pants with their bellies hanging over the top were

>SURPRISED to find that they were in the overweight category. On the

>one hand I think it's great that it's not as big a hangup. But at the

>same time it makes me wonder what they see when they look in the

>mirror. On the flip side I had to encourage more than one NOT to go on

>a diet because it isn't necessary when you're normal weight for your

>height.

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