UK/Asian Response to Sexually Explicit Advertising

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Advertisers must tailor its examines at delivering brand messages depending on the target audience, be it members of westerly or Eastern cultural groups.The answer to sex in advertising can be viewed in a positive or negative fashion, depending on the hold dears and perceptions of those who view the ads. The entire process of ensuring fluidity with public perception is entirely up to the advertisers themselves, and what is acceptable in the West is not always the case in the East.More specifically, Western cultures tend to have a much higher tolerance of familiar imagery, while Eastern cultures tend to broadly speaking be more offend by ads that exploit sexuality to set up consumer products.The same ads may repay vastly different responses when viewed by members of the two divergent cultural gr oups. The salient difference in the response the ads generate is due to cultural beliefs, practices, and ideals that promote varying attitudes toward sex among those who live in Western societies and those who live in Eastern societies.As one of the more provocative global advertisers, Benetton continually looks to quest after the public in their form of sexually-driven advertising in an attempt to hazard the response of the public.Although Benetton is only one of the major Western advertisers that is reservation inroads in the easterly hemisphere, they have an interesting task of marketing to more buttoned-down sectors of society, mainly the Asian people. The Asian community has a long-standing embedded repute system that may or may not ever shoe collar up to the impressionable Western culture group.Due to the cultural differences that exist in Asian culture, Western-based advertisers have a formidable task in estimate out how to deliver brand messages in ways that are tw ain effective and culturally acceptable. This poses a significant challenge to advertisers, because they must exhaustively research the ideals and beliefs of those to whom they seek to direct their brand messages.When looking at adverts with sexual undertones, Western culture views this type of shock advertising as generally accepted and it is not really given a foster watch as it is viewed as an acceptable part of societal set. But, in the eastern hemisphere, this type of culture shock may be acceptable with the jr. generation, albeit not as gregariously as with their western counterparts, but with the sure-enough(a) generation of Asian and UK families, attitudes toward this type of sexually open advertising are not perhaps as accommodating.UK/Asian Response to Sexually express AdvertisingWriting this thesis has been extremely hard, demanding and extremely time consuming, but has also provided insight into exactly how much of an impact, good or otherwise, sexually implicit advertising has on a predominantly sheltered society.There is unfortunately a limited number of empirical studies that have been completed on this subject and perhaps through the offering of this thesis can more advanced and concurrent data be exhumed and learned from.I would like to thank my professors and supervisors at the University that have helped me along the way in ensuring that I was kept on track during the entire process and has been instrumental in helping me through the more difficult times and the rough spots that I endured from time to time.It is anticipated that this thesis will only be the beginning forage into an unknown and provocative world of advertising and provide additional material to carry-on with future students.ABSTRACTThe world of advertising has the inevitable task of having to cater to all factions of society, be it western or eastern cultural groups, and the reaction to sex in advertising can be viewed in a positive or negative fashion. The entire pro cess of ensuring fluidity with public perception is entirely up to the advertisers themselves and what is acceptable in the west is not always the case in the east.One of the more provocative global advertisers, Benetton, continually looks to engage the public in their form of sexually-driven advertising in an attempt to gauge the reaction of the public.Although Benetton is only one of the major western advertisers that is making inroads in the eastern hemisphere, they have an interesting task of marketing to a societal sector, mainly the Asian people, that have a long-standing embedded value system that may or may not ever bring in up to the impressionable western culture group.When looking at advertisement with sexual undertones, western culture views this type of shock advertising as generally accepted and not really given a second glance as it is viewed as an acceptable part of societal values but, in the eastern hemisphere, this type of culture shock may be acceptable with the younger generation albeit not as gregariously as with their western counterparts but, with the older generation of Asian and UK families this type of sexually explicit advertising is not perhaps as accommodating.REFERENCES Albers-Miller, N. 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