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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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I worked for 15 years at Coca-Cola, but this stuff I do not drink.:mrgreen:

Out here on the Left Coast, Coke bottled in Mexico is what many want. They use sugar instead of corn syrup.
You can taste the difference.

But the scuttlebutt is, they (Mexico) will soon be switching over to corn syrup. I think it's a NAFTA thing.
 
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with making every effort to learn the majority language wherever you happen to live. In my experience, though, the US is the easiest place in the world to get away with not doing that. There are entire communities who never learn English and they're doing just fine. Some parts of the country, it's like being in Havana or Beijing.

They aren't doing fine. That's the point.
 
Out here on the Left Coast, Coke bottled in Mexico is what many want. They use sugar instead of corn syrup.
You can taste the difference.

But the scuttlebutt is, they (Mexico) will soon be switching over to corn syrup. I think it's a NAFTA thing.

Who cares, I drink Pepsi. :mrgreen:
 
The French suck at learning languages.

Part if it they don't really need to and also most are too proud to speak another language. They can learn them, they just don't want to.
 
I actually already was fluent in French and Italian. My German was passable and I learned Swiss German in no time. Almost everyone speaks English here anyway. :)

Life is too short to learn German.
 
Actually we are not in disagreement and we share the same ideals. What bothers me, okay what amuses me, is their demanding tone and suggestions of 'compromise'. Where did they learn that?.
I had to watch FOX to see that the Fort Collins student council wanted to have a "Merica Monday" to honor President's day.
It hasn't been picked up by MSNBC.
The school said NO but will now relent and allow a "My Country Monday".
In Illinois, it is state law that we must have a school program if we attend school on traditional holidays, such as Veteran's day .
 
Part if it they don't really need to and also most are too proud to speak another language. They can learn them, they just don't want to.

And they mistrust l'anglais. Don't blame them though with the prejudiced media they have in Quebec, which is one of the disadvantages of speaking just one language. You're stuck with just one media source.
 
Who cares, I drink Pepsi. :mrgreen:

That's probably because you're part of the Pepsi Generation.

Pepsi is to carbonated for my liking.

When I was growing up, we got one bottle of Pepsi every Friday night. Fridays were always either pizza night or taco night.
 


This land is my land, and only my land. I've got a shotgun, and you ain't got one. If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off. This land is private property.

:mrgreen:
 
This land is my land, and only my land. I've got a shotgun, and you ain't got one. If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off. This land is private property.

:mrgreen:

Then in a Grapes of Wrath way I'll do asit in
 
And they mistrust l'anglais. Don't blame them though with the prejudiced media they have in Quebec, which is one of the disadvantages of speaking just one language. You're stuck with just one media source.

It's not just Quebec, any French speaking region. Most English speaking people are limited to one news source as well then.
 
I think it's a bit obtuse to debate the meaning of this commercial when the meaning is clear

It's meant to get people to buy their product.

End of story.
 
I think it's a bit obtuse to debate the meaning of this commercial when the meaning is clear

It's meant to get people to buy their product.

End of story.

Didn't work. I'm still drinking Pepsi. Also, it's a more patriotic soda because it's red, white and blue. ;)
 
Nah. It's mostly the French. Belgians, Swiss Romands and even French Canadians are much less reticent to learn another language.

That is what I said. Though my friend in Belgium speaks four languages including German and English.
 
I think it's a bit obtuse to debate the meaning of this commercial when the meaning is clear

It's meant to get people to buy their product.

End of story.

That fits in perfectly with the song and that is what it was and still is about. And I really have no problem with that. I have a problem with problem with people getting suckered by that
 
It could be worse. I could have ended up in Astana or Bucharest.

Or Cologne, if you were traveling alphabetically.

I learned Spanish in Central America and this often surprises people because I'm blond. Sometimes I need a dark haired person to translate my Spanish to the other dark haired person's Spanish. Life can be confusing for us gringos of non-color.
 
Right this moment it's American Concord, Purple (Red/Blue)
Didn't work. I'm still drinking Pepsi. Also, it's a more patriotic soda because it's red, white and blue. ;)
 
Or Cologne, if you were traveling alphabetically.

I learned Spanish in Central America and this often surprises people because I'm blond. Sometimes I need a dark haired person to translate my Spanish to the other dark haired person's Spanish. Life can be confusing for us gringos of non-color.

Ay, pobrecito! :D
 
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