Are they selling notion of the 'strong, proud country', ready to defend
itself agains (fill in favorite enemy here)agression?
No, nothing that overt. The military is portrayed as a sort of
comical place with people yelling a lot and blowing a lot of bugles.
Then people get pushed out of transport planes carrying bags of
pretzels. "Bombs away, pretzel boy." But the mere fact that the
military is put in such a positive light, is definitely a sign of
conservativism.
>I'm sorry, I just have to ask... forgive me, this has been a running
>gag in my house for the last 15 years.
>
>What do you think of Mrs. Olson? You know, Folger's coffee, back in
>the 70's? Or did you never see it... USA advertizers might not have
>been stupid enough to show such a thing in Norway, but that would be
>giving them a _huge_ benefit of the doubt. :-)
>
>Norway! That sparkling land of coffee....
I haven't heard of it, nor seen it, or even heard of Folger's coffee.
You'll have to explain this to me.
Probably better not! I bet you didn't know that Norway was co-opted
in the 70's as a land of people very wise in the ways of coffee. Much
like Juan Valdez is co-opted for Columbia right now. At least
Columbia actually _makes_ coffee....
You might not know that TV commercials are a new thing in Norway, we've
only had it for about 5 years. Even now, the commercials are _between_
shows, never in them. Social-democracy has it definitive brigth moments.
WOW. As Johnny Carson would say, "I did not know that."
Cheers,
Brandon