Who gives a #### what language the song is sung in - it's the words of the song that are important. If they sing it and mean it - I wouldn't care if they were singing it in Klingon.
Coke is too tasty and I don't like Pepsi. Plus the ad wasn't that bad considering that there is no "official" language for America
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Americans should be happy that Coke has ruined dozens of third world country water supplies with their sugar plantations. Not sure what the problem is really
Americans should be happy that Coke has ruined dozens of third world country water supplies with their sugar plantations. Not sure what the problem is really
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I wouldn't be surprised if those were made up twitter accounts, by coke. People are now "talking about it", news orgs are reporting on it, and coke looks good being on the right side of this debate.
Location: Oklahoma - Where they call a puck a ball...
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Southern United States born Nickerjones has just commented on the coke commercial. He says "Who cares". There ya have it .... Southern US people really didn't care about the commercial.
But really... I found nothing wrong with it. It is what it is. In Oklahoma I heard Spanish just as much as I heard English. A lot of people on my Facebook feed seemed to have a problem with it. It's not like the changed the words to "Mexico, the beautiful" or "China, the beautiful" (not saying these places aren't beautiful). The words are still the same, just in a different language. People really just look for a reason to cause a fuss these days.
I don't understand xenophobia, nor the speak English philosophy. Perhaps because I grew up in a country that used the cultural mosaic philosophy and am used to hearing the national anthem in a language other than the one I grew up speaking.
The US subscribes to the melting pot philosophy, and everything is English. So I guess a change of the "ingredients" in the pot change the country and the loss of English is a loss of understanding/comprehension of the surroundings that they've grown up with.
Everything is not in English in the US. Go to California and you will see Spanish prominently displayed on signs everywhere.
The US caters perfectly well to their minority populations when there is a good reason for doing so.
I think It probably makes for a more logical argument then the Canadian attitude of enforce French language everywhere even where it makes almost zero sense to do so.
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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I`m just watching the Filipino news with my wife and they are talking about this commercial. No- nothing about what Fox news is talking about. They are talking about how proud they are to have Filipino representation in the SuperBowl. Not only was part of the song sung in Tagalog, but that one of the Seahawks players is 1/2 Filipino.
