Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institut für Amerikanistik), course: 'Rural America', language: English, abstract: This seminar paper will comprise three parts. First, in order to provide a basis for the upcoming analysis, there will be a theoretical part, containing general facts on myths and rurality, as well as two specifically addressed rural myths. After that, there will be an application part in which the afore-mentioned rural myths will be applied to Ram's 'Farmer' commercial. Finally, there will be a chapter on the negative side of this advertisement, addressing some ofthe arisen controversies and problems.