In the school district where I am employed there are a variety of disposable gloves of various sizes and types from a variety of different companies available for use, and in the majority of cases there is an illustration or picture on the box of a hand either wearing or getting ready to wear the gloves in question. So far, in every single illustration or photo showing a hand, that hand seems to be Caucasian. Keeping that in mind when I went to the store today, I checked out the boxes of disposable gloves they had on sale, and in every single case where a hand was illustrated or photographed that hand seemed to be Caucasian.
What gives?
They all used stock photos with a cheap rate? The ad agency that does the work for almost all of the companies (I’ll bet a single corporation owns most brands) had a photographer who used his girlfriend as a model? They all want people of color to die? But I’d bet the second one.
Have spent a bit of time in laboratories, and every technician I saw or worked with was wearing a white lab coat.
Shit hey, I’m as racist as all fuck and didn’t realise it.
I’m not talking about white clothing or white gloves. I am talking about white hands.
Or, at least, white wrists. The visible hand would be glove-colored.
In the pictures where a glove was on the wrist was white, and in pictures where the hand and the glove were shown separately the hand was white.
So the implied question is “where are the hand models of color?”
I am not jumping to ridiculous conclusions-I am merely making an observation and asking if I am correct.
The direct question, if there is one, is “Is my observation correct?”.
The gloves are manufactured in China. The boxes are printed, die-cut and assembled in China - from art files designed in the US.
Graphics designed to appeal are increasing multi-ethinc (or, in the case of those Neo-geo blue people with tiny heads, non-ethnic). But the default race for “who gives a fuck?” packaging is white.
Your observation is correct. Its much more common than you may think but thankfully it is slowly changing, thanks to the efforts of people like you 
BTW : its systemic. Its not just discriminatory against colored people but the system is sexist too. For example : A five-star safety rating for a car or truck means it was highly rated for a 5-foot-9-inch, 170-pound man. :
Well, in the interests of research I went to the websites of two of the world’s largest manufacturers (both are Chinese) and you know what … it’s rather hard to determine.
But if I was the marketing manager of a Chinese manufacturer of disposable medical gloves distributing into the USA, if I thought about it at all I’d go with whatever packaging design that I thought would move the most stock. Most of the question regarding colour seems to be about the colour of the latex.
No you’re not. I’ll send you a picture of my hands, they’re white (vitiligo). I’ve never seen white hands in an ad.
Seemingly Caucasian hands, then. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Back when Michael Jackson was still alive, several times people would notice my hands and say, “do you have that disease that Michael Jackson has?”
My stock reply, “Pedophilia? No, I don’t even like kids”.
If I were a company selling gloves.and needed stock photos I would choose the cheapest ones, which may well be old stock photos of white models back when that is most of what they had.
I’m selling gloves on a tight margin, not making a political statement.
You slay me, dude.
Not making a political statement is the most powerful political statement possible.
What does this even mean? That some company selling gloves and trying to squeak out a profit should be aware of political correctness? Even if they are not an American company? Some people are just trying to eat.
I would expect that in the US market, the majority of institutional buyers purchasing these gloves are Caucasian (as are about 2/3rds or their nurses). So I doubt that the diversity of photo models has much influence on their purchasing decisions (if even noticed) – they decide on the basis of quality, availability, and price – especially price!
That might indicate a historical bias in the industry, but it is what is. And companies selling goods aim toward what is, not what we think should be.
[I’d think concern about bias in admission to nursing schools or promotion of nurses would be more effective than worrying about the skin color of photo models!}