Ice_nine Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443Vy3I0gJs I guess conservatives are flipping the hell out over this ad, and even though that coke is just following the $$$ I think people's visceral responses are a little upsetting but also kinda funny. Were you offended beyond repair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443Vy3I0gJs I guess conservatives are flipping the hell out over this ad, and even though that coke is just following the $$$ I think people's visceral responses are a little upsetting but also kinda funny. Were you offended beyond repair? I thought it's implications that America is welcome to everyone was nice. My parents and Rush Limbaugh, however, found it incredibly offensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 How dare this ad imply non-white non-English speaking people are welcome in the United States! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Well, I certainly don't have a problem with it. AND I had an odd feeling of deja vu from when I was in high school... about 40 years ago: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM2eLhvsSM[/media] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 我喜欢å¯å£å¯ä¹ã€‚ :proud: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 我喜欢å¯å£å¯ä¹ã€‚ :proud: I like Coca Cola? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I like Coca Cola? What else am I supposed to say? Mostly 我喜欢写ä¸æ–‡ã€‚ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristinaTherese Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 So... why would people be offended? I mean, I'd be more annoyed by the ad that AnneLine posted, but it isn't offensive either. (It just makes me think of McDonaldization and I don't like McDonaldization one bit. It's still a fact of life today and I don't get to change it and burying my head in the sand won't make matters any better or worse.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Yeah, I know about the one from 1971 - it DOES feel like MacDonaldization (I like that!) ... but you kinda had to have been there at that point. ;) At the time, everyone thought it was a neat ad -- all of us living together in peace, love and harmony, holding, hands, drinking coke together. :hippie: (euck) And I suspect THAT is part of why some of the 50 and 60 somethings think that the new coke add is euck... I think it feels to them kind of like the 1971 ad... ... but I think both ads are really sincere, and if you take it that way, they are kind of nice. I have NO issues with 'everyone' being considered American... and I don't get why some people find that such a shocking/disagreeble concept.... Ironically, there was a time not so long ago when Italians and Irish were considered EXACTLY the way some of the groups that some people have issues with today are considered..... and both make me sad. My heritage is mixed Irish Catholic/English Protestant/French Protestant, and I married into an ethnically Catholic Italian/Portuguese family. I will tell you my father was pretty HORRIFIED when I first started dating Mr. Al and he found out I was learning Italian! (I wanted to communicate with his grandmother, and I am SOOOO glad I was able to do so!) But he got over it and learned to really love Mr Al & his family. I have a good friend who is a super-outspoken African American woman, and my friend and I were both kind of stunned and truly horrified by a comment that was used during thePBS special The Irish in America (an EXCELLENT program, btw....) The show quoted from a letter from a slaveholder in mid 19th century, commenting that he was NOT going to use his well-trained Black slave to do a particular dangerous job "because there is always another Irish." The point being that, he could ALWAYS get another super-expendible Irishman to do this dangerous job, such a dangerous job he wouldn't let his slave do it. Wow. My friend was startled -- she had no idea that the Irish had been that detested in the US not so long ago. The difference, of course, as my friend D and I agreed, is that an Irish person could simply lose the accent and insist they were English or German.... but it's not so easy if you are Latino or Black or Asian... or whatever other group is being discriminated against this year. And that is sad, and that is a real issue in our world today.... SAD.... and we have to work to get the attitudes changed, in my opinion. BUT I do think the Clydesdale Horses / Puppy ad is MUCH superior to the Coke ad.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tab'le De'Bah-Rye Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 (edited) Thanks anneline wonderful post. Perhaps i'm being cheeky or looking to deep into things but i also understand the OPs possible direction as this... Peace and Love sells but which Peace and Love are you buying. Is it the real thing? Edited February 4, 2014 by Tab'le De'Bah-Rye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Thanks, Tab, and I completely agree? Wherein lies TRUE peace and love.... I think we know.... ;) Of course, I do like my diet Coke, in moderation.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_nine Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 So... why would people be offended? becuase if you live in murica you better learn Engrish! And their was a woman in a hijab, and a gay couple apparently. People lost thier minds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 LOOOOKY at the video I posted earlier. EBRYBODY speaks English! You're RIGHT, IceNine, that's GOTTA be the secret! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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