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Your opinion on Coke's version of America The Beautiful? [W:1014]

Do You like this version of "America The Beautiful?"


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Trust me. It's nothing compared to Russian. :lol:

I remember dozing off on the train while traveling around in Germany. In my half conscious state, I almost could've sworn everyone around me was speaking English.

It just sounded like English that I couldn't quite understand. lol

Some German phrases literally sound like their English counter parts, like "come here now" is pronounced in German "commin ze here" or kommen jetzt hier.
 
Except for Germany, your old man was right.

If you want to try the different cheeses try Wisconsin and for wine try California.

If you want authentic Mexican food, it's pretty bad, stick with Tex-Mex in America.

And what you eat in any Chinatown in America isn't what they eat in China.

Most Americans you find traveling abroad can be found eating at McDonalds.

McDonald's sucks. I used to love the Big Mac and Quarter Pounder but I think it's imported pink slime in them boogers.
 
Trust me. It's nothing compared to Russian. :lol:

I remember dozing off on the train while traveling around in Germany. In my half conscious state, I almost could've sworn everyone around me was speaking English.

It just sounded like English that I couldn't quite understand. lol

The English language is derived from German.

When I started college it was suggested that I should skip all of the basic American history classes and I was enrolled in History 15-A. Damn ! The first three books I had to purchase and read were in "Old English." It was more like German. And to make it worse the font was in the old Gothic type.
 
The English language is derived from German.

When I started college it was suggested that I should skip all of the basic American history classes and I was enrolled in History 15-A. Damn ! The first three books I had to purchase and read were in "Old English." It was more like German. And to make it worse the font was in the old Gothic type.

Makes sense that English is derived from Latin and German, since the Roman Empire and Germanic tribes dominated that territory for so long.

A little Sargent Schultz..

Rausch...mach schnell!

Rush....hurry up!
 
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Aren't there still Irish pubs? Aren't there still Italian restaurants?

There's no reason why immigrants can't keep many of their traditions while still conforming to local cultural norms and learning the language.

So what cultural norms? I dont see many cultural norms shared between the rural northern Louisiana I grew up in, the rural southern Louisiana I later lived in, and Delaware where I live now. Heck, between where I grew up and here in Delaware is totally different. As far as Irish Pubs and Italian restaurants, there were no Irish Pubs or Italian Restaurants in the town where I grew up. It was all fast food, American and Mexican food. But those dont even count really because almost every country I have visited had Irish Pubs and Italian Restaurants.
 
McDonald's sucks. I used to love the Big Mac and Quarter Pounder but I think it's imported pink slime in them boogers.

I think McDonalds is a kids thing. The older you get the more McDonalds turns ones stomach.

Just before I got my WEST-PAC orders for Nam, McDonalds came out with the Big-Mac. For 13 months while in-country all I thought about was eating a Big Mac and drinking anything that was cold that had ice cubes in it.

When I got on that "Freedom Bird" and when that Continental Airlines flight landed at MCAS El TORO as soon as I cleared customs and got my orders the first thing I did was stop at a McDonalds and ate two Big Macs and two large cokes with ice.

Today I might eat at McDonalds once every 18 months. The only fast food I eat today is a Double-Double at "In n Out" and once or twice a year Del-Taco.
 
I think McDonalds is a kids thing. The older you get the more McDonalds turns ones stomach.

Just before I got my WEST-PAC orders for Nam, McDonalds came out with the Big-Mac. For 13 months while in-country all I thought about was eating a Big Mac and drinking anything that was cold that had ice cubes in it.

When I got on that "Freedom Bird" and when that Continental Airlines flight landed at MCAS El TORO as soon as I cleared customs and got my orders the first thing I did was stop at a McDonalds and ate two Big Macs and two large cokes with ice.

Today I might eat at McDonalds once every 18 months. The only fast food I eat today is a Double-Double at "In n Out" and once or twice a year Del-Taco.


Yeah, my fast food tastes are shrinking every year now. Subway- Tuna, Firehouse- Hook & Ladder and a Chili's bacon cheeseburger. I make a better burger than you can buy anyway.

Nam was a hellhole. I've never heard a good story come out of there. Everyone went into Da Nang, then got spread out to some nightmare firebase.
 
If I'm not mistaken, the one part translated "Me Chinese, me play joke, me put pee pee in your Coke..."

We's is in America peoples, here we's speaks AMERICAN!!!!
 
If I'm not mistaken, the one part translated "Me Chinese, me play joke, me put pee pee in your Coke..."

We's is in America peoples, here we's speaks AMERICAN!!!!

:rofl:rofl:rofl

I remember that....lol

Now it's in the beer. :lol:
 
Makes sense that English is derived from Latin and German, since the Roman Empire and Germanic tribes dominated that territory for so long.

A little Sargent Schultz..

Rausch...mach schnell!

Rush....hurry up!

They say if you're going to travel the world, you only need to know two languages, English and French and you can get by. If you consider at one time most of the world at one time or another was either under British or French rule.

As for Latin America you'll find a larger percentage of the population able to speak and understand English than in Los Angeles. :lol:

The United States almost became a German speaking nation.
 
They say if you're going to travel the world, you only need to know two languages, English and French and you can get by. If you consider at one time most of the world at one time or another was either under British or French rule.

As for Latin America you'll find a larger percentage of the population able to speak and understand English than in Los Angeles. :lol:

The United States almost became a German speaking nation.

I think Spanish by far is more unilateral in use now. Though there are a lot of French and Spanish words that are comparable. I know in South America they often speak English also.

Germany was closer in WWII if the Normandy /Calais diversion hadn't worked.
 
Even though I can't understand half the words being sung, I like it just because I like the vocals. Beautiful singer.

But I'm still not going to buy Coke the next time I go shopping.
 
I was offended by the notion that people could come to America to seek liberty and then not even have the God damn decency to use that liberty in the way I want them to, who are they to speak different languages?!!?

Coca Cola's 'America the Beautiful' Super Bowl commercial angers conservative pundits - NY Daily News

Coke Super Bowl America The Beautiful Ad - Business Insider

Or like this ****ing blow hard Allen West

"I am quite sure there may some who appreciated the commercial," West said, "but Coca Cola missed the mark in my opinion. If we cannot be proud enough as a country to sing 'American the Beautiful' in English in a commercial during the Super Bowl, by a company as American as they come--doggone we are on the road to perdition. This was a truly disturbing commercial for me, what say you?"

That's right folks, God is going to doom this country to hell because we are "proud" enough to sing America the Beautiful in English during the Superbowl. Asshole.

I'm an immigrant to Germany, and I promise you if I stood up and sung their national anthem or a patriotically German song in English most Germans would be highly offended.

Being an immigrant means learning your host nation's language and being respectful of their customs. This ad wasn't atrocious, just poor taste.
 
Even though I can't understand half the words being sung, I like it just because I like the vocals. Beautiful singer.

But I'm still not going to buy Coke the next time I go shopping.

The thing is, the Super Bowl is an American event not an international event. Football (American football) is American, not a game for pantiwaist. But there is scuttlebutt that in a decade or two that the UK might have an NFL team. But it's only scuttlebutt.

So I have no idea where Coke was coming from with this multiculturalism bull ####. From what I'm hearing and it's only been 24 hours there are a lot of unhappy campers in America with this Coke multiculturalism commercial. Coke politicalized Coke. Lets see if there's a backlash.

Most Americans still expect Americans to speak English and for immigrants to assimilate into the American society.

Language is the glue that holds a nation together.
 
What ideological agenda is that? It seems to me to be consistent with the ideology this country was founded on. What is it again that is inscribed on the statue of liberty?


This sounds a little condescending. Also, this song does not belong to YOU. It belongs to anyone who calls themselves American, hyphenated or not.



I think the inclusiveness of other languages in that song represents what is at the very foundation of this country. It is not suggesting that America become something something, it is showing us how we are walking the walk and living the promise of equality and the peaceful coexistence of people from different cultures. The idea that they can live in a way that maintains a respect for their personal history amongst people who have very different histories and do so in peace because we all agree on the fundamental idea of tolerance and freedom is pretty damn awesome and very much in keeping with what we as a nation claim to be about.

You are free to disagree with me. I don't need to be lectured about tolerance and freedom, and I don't need to be patronised nor spoken down to. You can disagree with me without being self-righteous, whether you are interested in why I feel as I do or not. Your disagreement does not make you superior to me, and my sharing my history in growing up in the midst of another culture does not make me "condescending", despite your rude comment to the contrary. I makes me completely appreciative of the vibrancy of Mexican culture, of VietNamese culture, of Chinese culture, of Persian culture, of Filipino culture, all of which have given me friends, peers and colleagues who have enriched my life, as I hope I have enriched theirs.

There are few people who have joyfully interacted with more diverse cultures and individuals in my lifetime than I, and I count myself among those who have in my lifetime put themselves on the line to demand civil rights for all, despite the risks of the era. I am still doing so. However, that does not mean that I do not have a right to be annoyed when, at public events and on television commercials, certain national anthems are being sung in a foreign tongue for a primarily English-speaking audience.

This country goes the extra mile for its non-English speaking citizens, residents and guests. We provide free English tutoring, ballots and other public documents are available in dozens of different languages, translators are available free of charge for any who require them, from the classroom to the courtroom, one of the very few countries on the planet that does so. I support this wholeheartedly. I also understand that it sometimes takes a generation or two for assimilation into the American culture, an assimilation which does indeed require being able to eventually communicate with each other. The coexistence of the dozens and dozens of diverse cultures in America does add to our richness as a nation, but I will point out that although these cultures have maintained their history throughout the development of our nation as it is today, those cultures understood that eventually they would have to communicate in the common language of the nation in order to become a part of their new country, and not just an isolated pocket unable to understand their neighbors, and their own government officials.

So yes, I am annoyed by it, almost as annoyed as I am by your intolerance of any who have differing opinions and life experiences than your own. You disappoint me.
 
It doesn't bother me. America has always been a nation of immigrants.

And I think as usual, people are making WAY too big a deal out of it.
 
We are one, but we are many, and from all the lands on earth we come,
we share the dream, and sing with one voice, I am, you are, we are Australian.


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I understand what they were going for, but the concept still made me vaguely uncomfortable.

If a nation's citizens need one thing in common in order to function effectively, it tends to be a language they can all speak and mutually understand. Tolerance for multiculturalism is all well and good, but it cannot be a society's primary objective in and of itself.

It simply doesn't lead anywhere productive.

Lol. Yeah, you're right. Switzerland and Canada are totally ineffective, unproductive countries. :cool:
 
It doesn't bother me. America has always been a nation of immigrants.

And I think as usual, people are making WAY too big a deal out of it.

I agree!


As we were watching it we were all laughing about how funny it was going to be to watch heads explode. And it was! :)
 
You do realize that French Canadians and the rest of the country basically despise one another, right? There are more than a few separatist factions present in Quebec who want nothing less than complete independence.

And the country hasn't imploded yet. Imagine that. Besides, I bet they don't despise one another any more than some Republicans and Democrats who speak the same language do. Or take the vast cultural differences between the Northern and Southern US. Same language, feels like a totally different country. And they don't look kindly upon each other either. :lol:
 
Does the US have an official language?
 
Or take the vast cultural differences between the Northern and Southern US. Same language, feels like a totally different country. And they don't look kindly upon each other either. :lol:

Funny how more and more English speaking Americans need subtitles on television. You can't understand a word they say - in English!
 
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