It's a bright, bright morning in Middle America. A married pair are sitting on their porch, enjoying beakers of Total cereal and extolling the healthy benefits of having Total in their diet. Just another commercial in the war of the cornflakes, perhaps -- nevertheless in this case, there's a twist: The brace pictured are both Asian.
This national, prime-time network television commercial is just united example of the abundant number of print and broadcast ads featuring Asian Americans in 1995 In modern years, advertisers had been reluctant to feature Asian faces