[colorado tanker]

Besides being offensive, the ad made no sense. Why would people in other countries sing a US national song? We don't sing theirs. That doesn't mean we don't get along.

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.

[N. Theknow]

Wonder when Coke will come out with a “Cokexist” bumper sticker?

[mrsmith]

“I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke.”
That ad came out when food stamp participation reached 10 million, five years after Coke became food stamp eligible.
Coke wanted everyone to feel good about buying cokes for welfare children.

The new ad is, of course, meant to cement that support. Obviously only a mean racist would oppose buying Cokes for those people in the ad!

Billion dollar ad campaigns have a purpose.