I always drink and will continue to drink RC Cola. I thought the ad was horrible.
Make sure your ad blockers and virus defenses are updated first.
I was barely watching, and glanced at the screen since the words were unclear to me. The first thing I saw was a Muslim ragheaded woman. Yes it was offensive, especially knowing that Muslim women want Sharia, not freedom.
This Coke ad was even more shocking than the beat down suffered by the Tim Tebow-less Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl.
In the end, it is rather bitter-sweet, America being outraged and offended by the Coke ad and Tim Tebow proving that he should have remained as the Broncos QB.
As for Coca-Cola, this may be the end as millions upon millions of Americans will boycott the company.
Multiculturalism is a stupid idea in the first place.
I mean really...what sort of IDIOT would ever think that “we are all united by our differences” could even remotely work to bring cohesion to a society?
Diversity worship is un-American.
When America was a “Melting Pot”, immigrants who came here were eager to change, to adjust to the American culture, learn the language and become full-fledged Americans.
Now liberals have convinced immigrants to join together into victim groups and demand that America (and American citizans) adjust to accomodate them.
Liberals are in favor of anything that keeps groups and individuals from finding common ground.
The idiocy of multi-cultural laws like those that require election ballots be printed in many languages is mind numbing.
All these kinds of actions do is help the liberals keep us all separated.
But then, the last thing liberals want is for Americans to unite.
It was jarring to hear the song sung in languages that aren't even spoken by immigrants in the US.
If they want to do the whirled peas thing, bring back "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke." It's saccharine, kum by ya and unrealistic, but it's a nice song.
The Coke website has a long list of products, providing a handy reference for selection (or non-selection) of their wares.
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Hey I’m just a guy trying to share what I write online...If you hate that I blog, remember my name and don’t look at my threads...otherwise...please stay on topic... what is your opinion of the super Bowl Ad?
I have already writtne my sentiments, on the YouTube page, as of this morning, and true to form, I got one reply about Agenda 21, another reply that the song was written by a Confederate Soldier hopped up on morphine, and another that tried to call me a racist, because I stated that it is to be sung in English, only.
Time for another round of “Not buying New Coke!”
This was covered on the local news just now. Apparently there are alot of people upset with this commercial. There is hope.
To all concerned Here is the article in it’s entirety. Perhaps now we can get back on topic...and off of trolls or blogbusters or what not. Thanks, Joe
This is inspired by a flurry of Facebook posts and comments:
Lot’s of potshots are being fired over the Super Bowl ad presented by Coca Cola on Sunday night. Those who were offended at hearing a patriotic song about America sung in foreign languages, are being labeled racist. And those who embrace multi-culturalism are being call unpatriotic. While it is probably somewhere in the middle of both, I am one who felt slighted by the ad.
Facebook is ablaze with the debate and I will add that while I agree with this comment somewhat:
“I loved the ad.... Can anyone imagine how we look to some in other Countries? We ARE the shinning “city on the hill” and if somone who wants to be a part of that city and wants to sing America the Beautiful in their native language then so be it. Grow up !”
...I still feel that multi-culturalism does damage to the nation because now anyone be whatever they want to be in America, except just American which is now something less than ______ American. Once upon a time people, my ancestors, came to America because of the new life it afforded them. Being Italians, they came to this country legally, through Ellis Island, and assimilated into American life. They learned the language and spoke it, and contributed to American society, not as Italian-Americans but as new Americans only. They didn’t demand that anything be changed to suit them. They didn’t differentiate themselves as “this or that” American. They came here because being American gave them more promise and opportunity than their own countries. They were proud to become American and speak it’s language and join the culture and make it theirs.
In an article about this ad Allen West writes:
...we should remember the words spoken by President Teddy Roosevelt;
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”
In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn’t doing his part as an American.
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile.
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, and American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
There are some of us who still believe in America as a “melting pot”. It’s a bit like alchemy where the elements melted into it become something else. You don’t have clumps of mineral here and others there. It is meant as a transformation into something new. Americans. This is how my ancestors thought about it and I stand by it. They came to America for a new life as Americans. They didn’t need to “press 2 for Italian” or burden the government to convert street signs to Italian. They became English speaking citizens with an Italian heritage. They didn’t impose that on anyone. They worked hard to learn to be in America. Now everyone has to give lee-way to these other cultures. What makes them so special now, not to be expected to what was expected in the past?
I guess then if the American “ melting pot” means to each his own and for ones own gain only, it is not only sad but against everything I have known about the American experience from my Italian (legal immigrant) family. I guess I will wear black and go into mourning, OR stand my ground on the belief that being an American actually means something...
Pushing the multicultural line of the progressive left. Coke was my favorite cola.... Not anymore!!! From many, One. That is one culture from many (American Culture), not the other way around. That causes division not unity.
Hi!
My NAME in Tim... and, I’m a Diet Coke addict.
I drink a twelve pack every 2-3 days. At least, I DID! Before I saw that commercial. Now, I’m inspired to give it up. I’m switching to Diet 7UP. NO CAFFEINE! It HAS to be better for me, right??
I travel, a lot. I appreciate the advantage that a COMMON language gives us. I HATED that commercial. The visuals were fine... the message was OK... but, why NOT do it in ENGLISH?
Well.... Let’s see how a week without caffeine affects me. But, NO COKE, or COKE products for me... for at least the next week.
There is a poll with a related article on the NY Daily News’ website:
Why speak English in the US. Nobody really has to. Voters get help. Any medical facility that accepts government reimbursment MUST provide a translator-I know because I had to find the ONLY translator for some woebegone language in the Atlanta area for a (you guessed it) Medicaid patient.
Will you people please just stop frequenting that fake 'news' site and then posting it here as if it means anything? What's next? Someone posting excerpts from Barky's ghostwritten book about his 'father'? Like we need more bandwidth wasted upon any of that.
Hey, Humblegunner! Mark another one in your sights along with that other nutball who openly posts about her contributions to that fake site and then blatently advertises it here so as to generate more hits and create more revenue for her blatherings. about a Facebook posting as its source.
What a bunch of naive feel good bs. They mostly laugh at us and look at how weak willed we are. A country with no common culture, a country of Borg, a country so easily destroyed from within.