“Being the First”: An Ageless State of Mind in the Multicultural Marketplace
Much has been written about young multicultural consumers being trendsetters in music and fashion, active users of digital devices and all-around early adopters. But opportunities are being lost by thinking about “trendsetters” in such a narrow way among such a narrow group of consumers. In fact, the idea of “being the first” is more than a mere pop-culture-related behavior, and it applies to older consumers as well as younger consumers within the multicultural markets. This week's MONITOR Minute takes a look at the early-adoption attitude of African-American and...