How corporations sell stuff to your kids | Ashleigh Clyde | TEDxWarrenton

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29 Feb 202411:10

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Q & A

  • What is the main topic the speaker discusses?

    -The speaker discusses how corporations take advantage of children through marketing and advertising.

  • How does the speaker draw comparisons between Willy Wonka and real corporations?

    -The speaker explains how corporations use tactics similar to Willy Wonka, like sending out products to lure kids in, in order to build brand loyalty early on.

  • What are the two main factors that cause corporations to target children?

    -The two main factors are: 1) Kids influence their parents' buying and 2) Kids are likely to remain loyal to brands they liked when younger.

  • How does commercialism affect education?

    -Commercialism turns classrooms into arenas of subtle warfare, where corporations try to instill their preferred ideologies and messages through sponsored educational content.

  • What racial disparity does the speaker point out?

    -The speaker notes that minority children, especially Black youth, are shown significantly more fast food ads than their White peers.

  • What does the quote from Willy Wonka signify?

    -It signifies Wonka's fear that a child could disrupt and challenge the status quo he has built, just as real corporations fear empowered children.

  • Why does the speaker mention becoming criminal lawyers and teachers?

    -Because empowered, justice-oriented children represent the worst nightmare to corporations trying to mold young minds.

  • What is the overall message of the speech?

    -That we must protect children's innocence from corporate agendas, since children have the power to make positive change in the future.

  • What can parents, educators, and policy makers do?

    -They must ensure marketing and education empower children rather than take advantage of them.

  • Who does the speaker say is ultimately responsible for children's well-being?

    -We all are - parents, teachers, lawmakers, and advocates all share responsibility for protecting children.

Outlines

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Paragraph 1 discusses how childhood films often have dark themes involving murder and inappropriate relationships

The first paragraph explains that many classic children's films, when analyzed more critically, contain very mature themes involving attempted murder, inappropriate relationships, and other dark elements. It argues these movies, while beloved, have concerning undertones when viewed through a more critical lens.

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Paragraph 2 explores how corporations take advantage of children's vulnerability in marketing efforts

The second paragraph discusses the tactics used by corporations to market products and ideas to children. It explains how corporations spend billions targeting children, seeing them as impressionable future consumers. The paragraph also examines how corporations mold mindsets and ideologies through their involvement in education.

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Paragraph 3 concludes by relating corporate exploitation of children back to the Willy Wonka character

The final paragraph relates Willie Wonka's search for an heir back to real-world corporations seeking to influence children. It argues children have potential to challenge corporate agendas, which companies may fear. The paragraph concludes by stating we must protect childhood innocence from exploitation.

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Highlights

Our childhood films often involve disturbing themes like murder and inappropriate relationships.

Willy Wonka uses tactics similar to real corporations to lure children into his factory.

Corporations spend billions on advertising to children who don't have money.

Marketing to kids is effective because they influence parents and build brand loyalty early.

Child-based marketing shapes mindsets and ideologies in addition to selling products.

Corporations compete to shape education and spread their narratives to kids.

Minority children often targeted more aggressively by corporations.

Willy Wonka chose Charlie because he was honest and could be trusted with secrets.

But perhaps Wonka also feared what Charlie could become if empowered.

Corporations also fear the potential of children to disrupt the status quo.

We must protect childhood innocence from corporate agendas.

As future leaders, children are corporations' worst nightmare.

Movies reflect a profound revelation about power dynamics with youth.

Critical analysis of childhood media reveals deeper societal truths.

Adults must empower children to challenge norms and systems.

Transcripts

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at an early age I've had a rather unique

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perspective on movies and watched them

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more critically apart from my peers

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never understanding the Whimsical appeal

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to our childhood Classics I found myself

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viewing them through a different lens

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so much so that by the age of 16 I

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became an entertainment reporter and

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film journalist and it was then that I

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delve deeper into these seemingly

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innocent movies that I uncovered a

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rather chilling truth our childhood

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films are

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horrifying think about it Tales of

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attempted murder and the relationship

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between a 14-year-old girl and and a

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31-year-old

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man Snow White and the Seven

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Dwarves a child left home alone fighting

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off murderous

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criminals home

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alone or a brother murdering his brother

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and then attempting to murder his

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nephew The Lion

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King while these movies are great we

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can't help but know notice how they

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affect our real world context as you can

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see murder is a common theme with this

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said there is one particular movie I

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have been studying analyzing and

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researching for the past five years the

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1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate

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Factory for those of you who are

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fortunately unfamiliar with this film

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willly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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follows a handy making man named wiie

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Wonka whom no one has seen in years who

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owns a factory that no one has been to

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in years when all of a sudden out of

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nowhere he releases five golden tickets

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into the world summoning children to his

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Factory which no one has been to in

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years to meet a man no one has seen in

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years then the five children enter and

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only one come comes

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out

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alive however a horror movie in itself

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is not as scary as seeing those five

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words solemnly glaze the

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screen based on a true story sh Verma an

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entertainment journalist explains that

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knowing that someone actually went

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through that Terror in reality makes the

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movie more horrifying in nature and well

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while Willy Wonka and the Chocolate

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Factory may not be based on a true story

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its entire Essence is more legitimate

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than you may think you see just like

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Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory our

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own world is no stranger to Willy Wonka

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in his tactics used to lure children

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into the holds of a company or product

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this is known as child based marketing

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and this brings me to my topic

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corporations are seeing ample opportun

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to take advantage of the overwhelming

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fact that children are vulnerable so

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that is why first our journey will begin

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with taking a closer look at willly

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Wonka and his corporate friends then we

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will start the search for a golden

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ticket to explore the Insidious

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strategies corporations use to Target

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children until finally seeing what

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possible initiatives we could take to

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solve such a classified issue before the

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factory doors clo behind us

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forever while researching I found one

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number particularly hilarious

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corporations are projected to spend over

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21.1 billion do advertising to an

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audience that doesn't have any

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money as silly as it may sound this is a

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business strategy known as childhood

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commercial personalism you see to

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understand child-based marketing is to

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Simply ask why corporations Target

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children in the first place simple

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really there are two main factors number

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one kids influence their parents buying

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and most importantly number two kids are

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likely to keep wanting to use a product

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if we genuinely enjoy it this is known

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as brand

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identification so taking candy from a

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baby is is not as easy as we ought to

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think where the metaphorical candy

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becomes a shoe brand a favorite soda a

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particular phone brand or even a

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political party marketing research has

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suggested that brand identification is

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essential early because it's more potent

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later on let us not forget that children

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are the future consumers the very

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lifeblood of Corporations or as Mike

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Cales former president of kids R Us

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explains if you own this child at an

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early age you can own this child for

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years to

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come in addition child-based marketing

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is not just about selling products but

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mindsets as well upon speaking with Dr

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Alex molar the nation's leading expert

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on corporate involvement in education he

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explains that commercialism has become

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the curriculum of our culture

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corporations cognizant of the

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malleability of young minds recognize

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that these impressionable individuals

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hold the key to a future where loyalty

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preferences and ideologies are molded

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this recognition transforms classrooms

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and libraries into Arenas of subtle

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Warfare a war fought not with weapons

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but with

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narratives for example if I were to

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describe an educ ational digital

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resource led by a Cheesy scientist who

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wears a lab coat with a bow tie some

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students will say Bill and I the Science

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Guy While others La time with

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Leo with so many similarities between

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these two there's one difference that

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stands out Above All Else their message

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while Bill teaches us that global

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warming and climate change are crucial

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to understand Leo teaches us that oil

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coal and petroleum help us with our

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everyday needs this difference of

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message is linked to one vital

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thing who's pulling the

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strings Bill n the Science Guy is owned

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by the Walt Disney television

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Corporation while lab time with Leo is

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owned by Oklahoma oil and

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gas among these two enthusiastic

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Educators is a plethora of other

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examples known as school house

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commercialism we often find ourselves

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embroiled in political debates regarding

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the content of our education often

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overlooking the underlying factors that

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contribute to this division in the first

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place it's imperative that we address

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these C these root causes to foster a

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more unified and constructive

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educational

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environment and now that I'm thinking

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about it Willie Wonka sent Wonka Bars

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all over over the world to over 195

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different countries across seven

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different continents and the only five

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kids who happened to receive a Golden

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Ticket were white and spoke

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English pure coincidence I think

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not in retrospect real world

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corporations like to send minority

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children golden tickets more than their

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white peers according to the rut Center

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for food policy and obesity black

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children and teenagers are shown

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75% more advertisements from fast food

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corporations on networks with the higher

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black audience endorsing obesity

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diabetes and high blood pressure at an

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early age increasingly schools located

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in heavily minority populated areas are

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seeing more advertisements within their

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schools

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also as I conclude I will share a quote

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Willy Wonka exchanges with Charlie

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the last child remaining at the very end

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of the film

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quote I can't go on forever and I don't

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really want to try so who can I trust to

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run the factory when I leave and take

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care of the Oompa lumus for me not a

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grown-up a grown-up would want to do

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everything his own way not mine so that

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is why I decided a long time ago that I

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had to find a child a very honest loving

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child to whom I could tell all my most

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precious Candy Making Secrets end

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quote in the enchanting tale of willly

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Wonka and the Chocolate Factory we

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discover a profound Revelation that

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perhaps it's not just about trust

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perhaps deep down it's also about

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fear fear of what a child like Charlie

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Bucket could become a child with the

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potential to challenge the status quo to

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question established norms and to

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disrupt the very fabric of the corporate

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world and Society

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itself willing Walker saw this potential

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in Charlie and corporations see it in

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the children they target the future

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awaits and it's the responsibility of

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all of us parents Educators policy

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makers and Advocates to ensure that the

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sweet innocence and Pure Imagination of

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childhood is not tainted by corporate

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agendas for just as Willy Wonka sought a

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child to inherit his legacy we too must

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protect and empower the Future Leaders

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of our world because the fact that we

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are the future criminal justice lawyers

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climate change activists and teachers

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make us Willie Wonka's worst

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nightmare

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