Posted on 02/04/2014 12:32:57 PM PST by Oliviaforever
Well said, you’re exactly right. If this popular culture is pushing it, you can almost bet your last dollar that it will be part of the leftist agenda-case in point, the Grammies. When something/someone accidentally gets through their wall, ie Tim Tebow or Phil Robertson, the reception from the mainstream media is very different, and not at all welcoming.
I don’t know why people, at least conservatives, even watch or support thugball anymore, anyway. Or most of teevee, period. Or actually pay good money to support Hollyweird and its America-hating perverts. That just means we’re actually paying the salaries of our enemies, people who would happily send us to the gulag if they could, without losing a minute’s sleep. It makes no sense to me at all.
And, one year I had the following in my homeschool:
One Philipino
One Native American
One Black
and two average white kids
We had a great time exploring each others’ cultures, including mine and the AWK’s European’s roots. We talked about how each nationality had come to America. And yeah, we studied world religions, too. Gasp! We even dealt with Islam...the day after 9/11.
OK, burn me at the stake.
I didn’t even know there was a gay couple in there until the gays demanded I should notice and be offended. I thought this “controversey” is due to a traditional song about America is being sung in multiple languages, not about queers. But I guess the tuna bumpers and pee-pee touchers just didn’t want to be left out. Bunch of freakin’ divas...
New Coke part II.
“Just watch the commercial and it is plain as day.”
So “plain as day,” that I missed it?
Was there anything I missed being offended by in Audi’s “Dober-huahua” commercial?
I apparently have lousy gaydar. My wife says I do.
You’re right on the money. When an American who speaks only English can’t even be considered for a job because they don’t speak Spanish-and I’m not talking about the UN, or some mom-and-pop store in the barrio, I’m talking about places like Home Depot in certain parts of California or Florida-something is rotten in this country.
Conservatives like me are outraged because there is no longer an American "melting pot" in which newcomers become Americans. Instead our great nation, whose founding documents are written in English, has become a Balkanized polyglot anarchic mess. And there's a dictator-in-waiting.
Agree with your view on this one. It is not the National Anthem.
In Chinese, America is called “Beautiful Country,” even by the ChiComs. That’s a better description than you’ll hear from Obama.
“I would have used this commercial as a teaching moment.”
“What cultures did you see? Did it make you feel like America was an inclusive country, or one that excludes anyone who doesn’t look just like you?”
A teaching moment?
Can we assume that you would also use the Homosexual couple with a child in the Coca-Cola commercial as teaching moment?
What sexual orientations did you see? Did it make you feel like America was an inclusive country, or one that excludes anyone who doesn’t have the same Christian Pro Family Values just like you?
Is that how you view this commercial?
You mean like Google add promoting homosexuals. (bing came out with a me too add)
It's money. They even export American jobs for make more of it. But that's OK for conservatives but the language used to sing a song is their peeve. Let's picket the opera while we are at it.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be doing cross cultural studies and learning about other cultures.
Back in the 1960s, when I was in High School, I got way into studying East Indian culture after becoming intrigued by George Harrison’s involvement with Ravi Shankar. Being a budding guitarist and a big Beatles fan back then, I persuaded my parents to buy me a sitar, and started listening to Indian music and learning about it culture. I got into Hinduism and read the Bhagavad Gita. It was a great, fascinating experience.
In my life I have become interested in different cultures and took it upon myself to learn about them. I became interested in various Asian cuisines, learned how to cook in different styles, studied Korean and Japanese martial arts and became interested in getting a feel for these cultures.
In the 90s, I became fascinated by Caribbean culture (Jamaica, British Virgin Islands) when I visited those places, and was thrilled to learn from the people who lived there.
But first and foremost, I have always identified with being an American. It used to be that when I would meet foreigners in my own land, I would be proud falttered that they came here to learn about America and experience it.
But now, with all the multicultural crap, the push for legalizing illegal aliens, and the relentless trashing of traditional American culture by the leftist media, academia, and political class, I become very offended by foreigners who come here and expect that we need to change our culture (and demand that we learn their languages on our own shores) in order to accommodate them and spare them from “offense.”
Do you see the difference?
The implication of that Coke ad was that anyone from any foreign culture can come here, keep their own culture, their own language and somehow be American. It’s the old melting pot vs. tossed salad analogy. And I am very offended today that the tossed salad business seems to be prevailing.
Should have read:
Some of us are damned tired of our politicians, the media, and corporations celebrating everything that divides us, but nothing that unifies us as U. S. Citizens...
Nursing, teaching, sales, civil service, emergency responders...
Just these no-account positions...
Opera isn’t deliberately trying to send a leftist message that America will accomodate sharia law, “dial 2 for Spanish”, no-go areas for American-born English speakers, etc. Opera isn’t pushing an agenda of amnesty for illegal border-jumpers who can’t be bothered to learn English, compete with Americans for the jobs which aren’t shipped to China, and ethnically cleanse non-Mexicans from neighborhoods and schools, while at the same time billing the taxpayers for their education (in Spanish), their medical care, their food and housing, and avoiding taxes themselves. Opera has no organisation such as “La Raza” which wants to take over portions over the US for non-opera singers or supporters.
That commercial wasn’t just showing how we’re all one big happy American family.
To top it off, showing a muslim group singing praise to America in Arabic, as if they loved American inclusion, was beyond offensive, it simply pretended something that wasn't, pretended they actually come here and join our culture rather than the truth - they want to take it over.
Naïve, and like the liberals who fashioned this ad for Coke, you appear to be very much so as well.
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