Coca Cola Super Bowl Ad.".America The Beautiful"-Multi Languages that Angered Conservatives.

[Stuart G]

Perhaps the most beautiful ad that I have ever seen about the U.S.A...

I still don't like Coca Cola or Pepsi for that matter, but this is really something..

[lostincalifornia]

1. Conservative and specifically republicans really hate American and what it stands for

[Stuart G]

3. How True....

I recall so clearly that my grandfather told the story of coming to the U.S.A. in 1910. The only requirement then, was that you had to be able to read a language, (any would do) and not have Tuberculosis. You had to stay at Ellis Island for a week, and then you were here legally. That was the law. It was changed in 1924 to what we have now.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I like the cut

From Jewish men to the beautiful muslim woman.

[CBGLuthier]

4. I am too cynical to praise it.

Surely they noted the increased ATTENTION GM got after the cheerios ad. Surely anyone with half a brain can see this as an attempt to cash in on liberal buzz. Surely we can not ALL be exploited that easily by a mega-corporation selling poison.

[Stuart G]

7. Perhaps you have a point.

Still, there are so many ads that say so many things. Some good, some bad, some angry, some kind. So, if I like an ad, that doesn't mean I like the product. Now, here is a phrase that I recall from years ago......."Winston Tastes Good Like a Cigarette Should"..

I hate the product, but someone came up with a catchy phrase. More about the art of advertising, then the poison of Coke, Pepsi or any other so called "soft drink"

[kardonb]

21. bu zz

our "librul" buzz encompasses ALL peoples and languages ; this country was and is great because we include all human beings in our shared dreams and accomplishments !

[thesquanderer]

26. It's nothing new. Remember "I'd like to teach the world to sing"?

Same message, different decade.

[ChiciB1]

31. Personally, I Have To Agree With You...

VERY nice to DO this thing, but since I've also become increasingly cynical AND depressed, this was a "money grab!"

While I can't remember when I last drank ANY "coke, soda, pop, pepsi, mountain dew whatever name is used for this type of drink, I have SHOULD admit to another thing I don't do anymore. Since it would probably get an "alert" I won't admit it.

BUT it does have something to do with a song. Sorry for the tease, but I also HATE that I can't rid myself of the harsh feelings that I have about what's happened to a country I once knew.

Also, before I get jumped, I DO realize that we've always had upheaval and violence from the inception of this country, I didn't live through much of it before my time. As a Boomer, I know things change and a certain amount of adaptation must be accepted, but the apathy I see is so difficult to accept. And I feel so helpless to make any real change.

So I sit here typing my frustration, but make no mistake... until recently I gave it my all. My wish now is that today's generation WILL really find a way to make their voices heard. I'm tired of going to meetings with too few people, joining groups with too few people and volunteering for so much with too few people.

I'm older, have some health issues and my energy level is tested at times. I have grand kids, 2 large dogs, a husband and both of my children who live close by. Always something going on.

Much healing is needed!

[alsame]

5. Years ago, I was told that

a 'real American' is someone whose ancestors never spoke a language other than English

Of course, the person who said this to me was someone who traced their lineage back to England and the early colonists.

Sadly, I think this attitude persists with the rightwing.

[PumpkinAle]

10. What's ironic is that they wouldn't

recognize the English spoken by their ancestors.

They would probably call them "furr'ners" too.

You are correct about the rightwing - so much for "Crown thy good with Brotherhood".

The rightwing - doing exactly the opposite of what Christ taught in the name of Christ!

[mfcorey1]

6. "F" conservatives and their constant whining about what is patriotic and what is not. They have

stolen this land if you want to trace it historically and the world should be whining about that.

[JoePhilly]

8. Because they barely speak one language.

[AnneD]

14. And from the looks of the signage...

they can't even spell in that one language.

[Heather MC]

9. This is definately a "Cue the Racist" Commercial, but

Why should we care what they think.
Racism is never going away. Why pay any attention to them. This is a beautiful Commercial. Fuk the Racist

[tclambert]

12. I used to think the arrival of space aliens might cure us of our racism.

We might go to species-ism, humans vs. ETs. Or so I thought.

Then the Rwanda genocide happened--lethal racism amongst people that most Americans could not tell apart. There is something wrong with human beings.

[Heather MC]

33. Well for one thing....

We keep buying into beliefs that say one type of person is better than another type.
One religion is better than another religion
one region is better than another.

What we fail to realize is that we are all one race stranded on the same rock in space. No one is any better than the other. but we love to find new ways to divide and kill each other.

It is the one thing we get consistantly good at with time.

I think the Aliens keep returning hoping one day we will be smart enough to receive them. but everytime they come here stupidity is still in power.

[tclambert]

34. I don't get why people root for the local football team, either.

Why should anyone think their local team is better than somebody else's? My father-in-law insists we should root for the Detroit Lions. The Detroit Lions! They last won a championship in 1957 and he believes their rebuilding effort will pay off any season now.

Anyway this "us" versus "them" applies to football, to white vs. black, American vs. foreigners, and Hutus vs. Tutsis. It sounds insane to me. Yet it seems like part of human nature. One of the villains on the show "Person of Interest" would call this facet of human nature "bad code."

[Auggie]

11. It's a BULLSHIT commerical. Coca-Cola is a major contributor to America's obesity rate,

diabetes in children and osteoporosis in elders.

It's also borrowed interest. Coke advertising is the worst.

[zebonaut]

20. Sugar water

The ad trick is to associate the daily business of life; with sugar water. Get those migrant workers to drink their sugar water after a hard days work; so they can get their Type 2 Diabetes; and then Merck can sell them blood sugar reduction pills for life.

[heaven05]

13. I hope many RW heads exploded. I hope they got real angry.

[Iliyah]

15. UGH

And they still hated the biracial commercial as well (Cheerios). With the firing of the staffer from MSNBC who was spot on, will these RWers ever apologize? I'll say a resounding no.

[volstork]

16. I predicted

that this commercial would make RW heads explode. How many of their ancestors are Native Americans I wonder?

[Stuart G]

30. Native Americans spoke many languages. over 400 seperate nations

All over the what became the U.S.A. Cultures differ from tropical, like Seminoles, to Plains, to coastal, to areas around the great lakes.
Hell, they are the real settlers. And most were peaceful. We live in a multi culture society, and I am proud of that. Fuck the right wing idiots who don't know or care about that.

[oldandhappy]

17. I keep thinking we have reached the height of ridiculous.

And I am constantly proven wrong!!

Freaking out over an ad??!!

[JHB]

18. Oh, it's the same old shit. Remember when Proctor & Gamble changed their moon logo...

...because the evangelical rumor mill convinced itself that it was a satanic symbol? And P&G eventually gave into them on simple "we don't want to deal with this shit" grounds.

[lark]

19. Lovely ad

Bad product! Haven't had a soda in many years and don't miss it one bit.

[handmade34]

28. simply put...

love the message, hate the messenger

[The Wielding Truth]

32. Exactly how I feel about this ad. America is diversity so I like the message. Like Frank S.sang:

[W.J. McCabe]

22. They get mad about everything, which is why their outrage means nothing to me.

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!

[R Merm]

23. I have been trying to find a list of the languages used in the ad.

Please post any language that was used and recognized.

[Thespian2]

24. Happy to see

an ad that should explain what being an American means...that is enough to explode many low-information right-wingers heads. I don't drink any soda. I don't like the Coke corporation.

[handmade34]

29. I would change...

"an ad that should explain what being an American means" to "an ad that explains what being a (U.S.) American should mean"

otherwise- Love the Ad!!!

[bullwinkle428]

25. RW : "GODDAMMIT!!1! WE KNEW THE CHEERIOS AD WAS COMING, BUT

WE HAD NO IDEA THAT THIS ONE WAS ON THE WAY!1!1!

[Gothmog]

27. It is a great ad

I love the fact that the conservatives are upset with this ad