4/13/09
For our group collaboration project, me and my group were going to film a kind of commercial. We were going to go to a Starbucks and film one of the group members trying to order a coffee but getting confused by the inexplicably foreign named sizes, then have the same person go to Fennario, a locally owned coffee and tobacco shop that exclusively sells fairly traded coffee and show the difference in atmosphere as well as understandability of the menu. Well we didn’t even get to film in starbucks, because apparently you cant film in a corporate store. The “barista” suggested that we film in Sprazzo, a coffee place across the street that has had a “closed for business” sign on the door for the past two years. “I think you already put them out of business” I said. They looked at me with blank stares and as we were leaving I kind of felt guilty. Corporations are so ingrained in out culture and so widespread that you cant really blame individual employees. Its not like they are physically going to peru or Colombia or wherever and enslaving the people that live there. It’s just a shame that more people don’t know what is really going on.
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