During the run-up to Halloween, the third biggest holiday in America, a campaign has been set out to make people more aware of the "costumes" that they may be deciding to put on this year.
In the past, it has started to become more "acceptable" to put on costumes depicting people from different religions and cultures and because of that more people from those groups are being alienated.
It's proving to be a fairly successful campaign in the sense of making more people aware of these cultures, however with such a large population I doubt that the majority of the people in the USA would really take notice of the offence they could be causing.
However, it has been a good source for debates within classrooms and on the Internet. When shown in the BTEC Media classroom, a small debate began on whether people were just being sensitive as "the Mexican on a donkey was funny". People did support the campaign though pointing out the connotations of the Muslim poster (the general stereotype that all Muslims are terrorists when that isn't the case).
On the Internet, people have definitely been getting into debates on this topic further promoting it as the images are passed along with peoples comments:
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