[carom]

Originally Posted by troutman

Seeing as how I am playing the other side in this thread:

1) He was not even a real 'first nations" person

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crying_indian

Cody was born Espera de Corti in Kaplan, Louisiana, a son of Antonio de Corti and his wife, Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from Sicily.

2) It was a fake tear

http://www.slipcue.com/obits/01/obits01.html

Belen Escarano. Cody's caretaker, said Monday that the actor originally resisted doing the commercial because, he said, "Indians don't cry." But, Ms. Escarano said, Lady Bird Johnson persuaded him to do the commercial. One version was made with the tear, one without: the version with the tear went on the air.
Ms. Escarano said the tear was, in fact, glycerine.

3) This is part of the point I was trying to make:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_America_Beautiful

Heather Rogers, creator of the documentary film Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage and book of the same name, classifies Keep America Beautiful as one of the first greenwashing corporate fronts, created in response to Vermont's 1953 attempt to outlaw disposable containers. The focus on litter, and indeed construction of the modern concept of litter, is seen as an attempt to divert responsibility from industries that rely on disposable and planned obsolescence products to the consumer that improperly disposes of them.