Coke for me please!
I thought yesterday's "America the beautiful" commercial from Coke was fantastic. Not as cute as the little golden Budweiser, but still a great commerical. Anything with great voices usually "gets" me.
But a loud minority are not impressed that the commerical was sung in a language other than English.
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was a little person, on Saturday mornings we watched commericals. School House Rock taught us a noun is a person place or thing, that "Im just a bill on capital hill" and that the USA is "The great American Melting Pot"
What is the problem of a nation build of a myriad of cultures exulting the glories of the country in their Mother Tongue? This is like…..Christ upset that I sing in English rather than Hebrew or Arabic?
It's a great commercial showing a beautiful country
and people.
So let's watch it again.
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One Reply to “Qǐng jiāo – coke please!”
oh the irony of european-americans bitching about “dem furners” and “we speak english here, damnit.” there’s only one group of americans who have ANY right to complain, and it ain’t Whitey McTeabagger. i bet most of the people complaining don’t even know that they likely have ancestors, only three or four generations ago, who only spoke swedish, yiddish, or shawnee (just to pull a few samples from my own family). some people just need a whack with a clue by four.