The rest of the world does not understand what the middle finger means.
No Pepsi. Coke.
So let me get this straight: We should not be making fun of HOLES IN THE FLOOR WHERE PEOPLE POOP IN? OMG, I would be laughing my arse off at those backward dolts. Wasn't the toilet invented like a gazillion years ago?!?
Oh, well, I don't drink Pepsi, anyway. Nor should anyone else who loves America.
After reading the entire speech, I don't see anything wrong with it. A lot of Americans are boorish in foreign countries. I've seen them in action.
I thought Pepsico was supposed to be a Republican company. It was Nixon who got them into the Soviet Union's market.
Pepsico brands and companies:
http://www.pepsico.com/company/brands.shtml
She talks about economics on all the fingers except the ring finger which she deviates and talks about romance in South America including Latin America. Odd!
Lighten up, guys and gals. The graduation speakers at the London Business School or INSEAD could have given a similar "global citizen speech." Drunken loud mouths are the same whatever their place of birth.
What is of more note is her perception of Latin America as the third finger because of the Samba, the antediluvian notion that Europe points anywhere but backwards and the condescending notion that Africa is a largely meaningless appendage. This total lack of cultural sensitivity (and intelligence) in a speech about cultural sensitivity and, god help us, emotional intelligence makes me want to pick up the phone and short Pepsico. Still metaphors are seldom perfect.
P.S. Personally, I am a green tea man.
The speech is pitifully boneheaded politically, and insultingly condescending to boot. Nooyi is a moral preener in the great liberal tradition, a fool who thinks her own poop doesn't stink, whether deposited through a hole in a Chinese floor or in an American commode at Pepsi headquarters.
I always hated Pepsi.
I can boycott Pepsi, but I really can't give up Taco Bell.