October 8, 2007

NYC DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM CAMPAIGNS AND SLOGANS AT LOCAL POPULATION'S EXPENSE

- racial stereotypes promoted to bolster tourism spending in 'ethnic' neighborhoods

- public awareness billboard saying, 'Hold a hand. Hold a homeless person.'

- all New Yorker's required to wear T-shirts that say 'I Heart Boston'

- NYC people, AKA sewer people.

- all museum tours now include dinner with your guide's family

- pamphlets distributed to tourists notifying them that Chinatown is not actually China, deterring millions of dollars in potential business

- native population forced to take humiliating classes on proper hygeine

- dine free of charge at any NYC restaurant fri/sat night only

- city assumes defecit in public opinion by running campaign with the slogan, 'New Yorker's Are People Too'

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