Coke's "America The Beautiful" Commercial

Posted by khalling 11 years, 9 months ago to Culture
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No one is singing this beautiful, uniquely and distinctly american song in other languages. Heck, I'm not sure children even learn it in school anymore.
Coke is an american company who no longer supports the United States, and this is just one more example.
They are agenda driven with crony capitalist arrangements that are anything but american in spirit.
1. that polar bear nonsense and global warming
2. openly supporting Obama
3. During WWII the US paid to build Coke plants all over Europe. Pepsi wasn't given sugar rations during that period-so they had to use molasses. (Pepsi isn't pure-under Nixon got some special deal we paid for to go into China).
Slick and pretty, but no one is singing America the Beautiful in other languages.

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  • Posted by freedomforall 11 years, 9 months ago
    This ad is nothing but anti-American propaganda. Coke should have learned by now that American culture is valued in America.

    It is a good example of why I don't waste time and money on movies or tv. Too much brainwashing propaganda.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I personally think multiculturism is great, but I definitely agree with the rest of your post. One of the defining characteristics of Germany's National Socialist party was its extreme, fundamentalist nationalism (hence the party's name). American Conservatives would do well to remember that...
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  • Posted by terrycan 11 years, 9 months ago
    I am a water, coffee and beer guy. Don't buy soda unless it is for guests. So I can't stop buying it again. Coke is free to advertise as they wish. Let the market sort it out.
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  • Posted by mminnick 11 years, 9 months ago
    I'm not at all for multiculturism. Not ever. Its too PC. But I want to remind people that not that long ago pwoplw were being ececuted for singing if in their native language. Namely Tagalog and other Filipino languages during the Japanese occupation of the Philippian island..
    I do think that some have earned the right to sing it in their native language. They died for it.

    Now I'll get off my soapbox.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    there are songs that have world wide appeal and the meaning isn't really changed. First ones that pop into my head are O Christmas Tree and Silent Night. But this song is about the US. It is about the pioneers(and yes lots of immigrants) who took on great risk to homestead and pursue other productive endeavors across the West. I lived for 16 years right in the shadow of Pikes Peak and recognize the incredible emotion welling up out of the objective reasoning Miss Bates experienced in creating those wonderful lyrics. Pioneers would have resisted coming to the US or traveling those distances were it not for our unique Constitution built on the protection of natural rights.
    just for devil's advocate:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Y3L0s1m...
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  • Posted by m082844 11 years, 9 months ago
    When I heard it I cringed. It took me a while to form the words to explain why I was feeling that way. Essentially, that beutiful song was created and meant for English. You can't change that fact. Any other language, being different sounds and syllables, destroys the rhymes and rythm that were thoughtfully created. It was off, no matter if the singer sings the right words and can keep a tune -- singing the words in the right tune is necessary but not sufficient. What about the rhymes and the rythm?
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 11 years, 9 months ago
    Enough with the diversity bs in advertizing. Shesh, I'm running out of products that I don't mind using my hard earned money on.

    I didn't know about Coke and WWII. Interesting. We won't even go into Standard Oil at that time.

    I agree. No more America the Beautiful in other languages.
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