“Egypt… Land of the Pharaos!… Egypt – Where Everyone Wears a Smile.”

Where are the travel ads for places like, say, Iraq?

“Iraq… Land of the Militias! Iraq – where every suicide bomber wears a psychotic smile.”

An honest travel ad from the 19th Century:

“Spend your Holidays in the exotic Colonies — where young British Gentlemen can do the things that are frowned upon back home! Remember, what happens in Asia stays in Asia.”

(SATIRE)

Good point. My bad for sounding like I was speaking for SAJA in my comment. I always assume it’s obvious to everyone why someone would find this Ho-rentalism amusing. I guess that’s really a double assumption… and whatever the case, I shouldn’t me making any. Carry on people

I should clarify that no one representing SAJA has to my knowledge guffawed about this stuff. I found out about the drawing via a press release that the organizers sent to SAJA for them to forward to their members. This is common practice and SAJA receives such materials from any number of correspondents seeking to reach desi journalists. As is appropriate, SAJA forwarded the press release without editorial comment. The comments here are mine, so feel free to chide me but leave SAJA out of it. Sorry if this wasn’t clear from my post.

SAJA shd reserve its giggles and guffaws for more serious stuff. Professors in the academy have built departments, careers, and schalar-trees dishing out such tripe. By the standards of the current stock in trade this is mild stuff. No need to get hot under the collar.

Let’s not scoff at the great American marketing machine’s attempts to bottle and sell India, as long as it is not denigrating or patronizing, and this seems to be neither

It’s

Eau d’Orientalisme

, Floridian, to go with the I heart Vedas T-shirt. I wouldn’t mind the scent so much if it didn’t make the wearer so stuck up from smelling it and of it and so sure that (s)he immediately knows and understands India so much better than I ever could or did.

Pink is the charcoal-grey

Sin, I hear Diana Vreeeland calling out to Nayveen Patnaik and rockin and rollin in her grave.

I, for one, find the I Love NY campaign offensive. The state is reduced to terms like “Finger Lakes” and “Broadway” and “Catskills” and “Times Square” and “Niagara Falls.” They never show outsiders the real NY.

excellent!