So, apprently a Super Bowl 48 commercial is pissing people off...
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Yes, it exists and has been a thing pretty much everywhere for pretty much the entire length of human history. It usually doesn't take the exact form of "un-(insert country here)" but it is very common and occurs in virtually any situation where a cultural line is drawn. Think about all the drama about fake gamer girls.Shanahanapp said:
It's not even the national anthem. That's the only case where I'd maybe understand a little bit, but it's just some patriotic song.
The outcry is really kinda pathetic.
The outcry is really kinda pathetic.
I disagree.Zachary Amaranth said:
OT: I get nationalist pride but I don't think the people complaining about this do. They just wanna shit on 'foreigners' for not being them.
I didnt read all 5 pages, but did anyone point out the family where the parents are a gay couple?
I find that way more interessting.
I dont really get the thing about being unamerican, any american I have met are just people like in any other place. Im from germany and I seriously wouldnt know how to be ungerman...
I find that way more interessting.
I dont really get the thing about being unamerican, any american I have met are just people like in any other place. Im from germany and I seriously wouldnt know how to be ungerman...
Honestly, I could easily see that Coca-Cola would receive hate for this once the commercial came on. The fact that it took one of the most cherished songs in American history, probably second only to Star Spangled Banner if even that low, and didn't sing it in just American English was just asking for a backlash. Then again, I was raised in a really conservative home (all of my family except my step-mom and those that are apathetic are Tea Partiers), so I know how pathetic some of their complaints can be.Lunar Templar said:
Personally, though, I thought it was the best commercial I saw. It kept to Coca-Cola's usual style of showcasing American and family imagery while modernizing to recognize the reality that we're no longer just a bunch of Europeans who speak a messed-up version of English as our first language.
Not really though, it would be like singing the Canadian anthem with more languages than the 2 it is already in. Hell I would be more than happy to have some Cree, Mohawk or Innu thrown into our national anthem. When most of the country's population is made of immigrants somewhere down the line, why not celebrate that? As long as we all maintain a common language in our dealings with each other I am fine with people speaking whatever language they want.SaneAmongInsane said:
Oh, I didn't know that, the time/date wasn't on the posts. I guess conservatives can be just as paranoid and xenophobic without suggestion these days. You have to admit though, fauxnews is mostly responsible for the wussification of the right wing.Blow_Pop said:
America is a country populated by immigrants. The fact that the English speaking ones arrived first does not make them the only valid culture represented in the national anthem. America is nothing if not a mish mash of cultures combined, so what's a few more? The U.S has very little culture of its own. To say that the national anthem, or just patriotic song or whatever should be left in the language of one section of the society is rather Un-American. Why not sing it in Navajo?
The U.S is a huge place, the sensationalist comments of idiots will naturally rise to the top of the barrel. No one believes for a second that they represent the opinions of the U.S as a whole.
The U.S is a huge place, the sensationalist comments of idiots will naturally rise to the top of the barrel. No one believes for a second that they represent the opinions of the U.S as a whole.
I'm pretty sure Christopher Columbus was an Italian, sailing for the Spanish!Wolf In A Bear Suit said:
I honestly can't fathom how somebody could actually be offended by this commercial, I really can't. What's wrong with non-English languages? What's wrong with people who speak those languages being American? I really don't get it.....Then again, I come from a country that usually celebrates multiculturalism.
Coke commercials are rartely relevant to their actual product, I've always found it strange to : \karma9308 said:
It was a nice idea and really my only problem with it is that it sounded disjointed and a little like they made a mistake and just cut all the versions together.
It's a cool idea but I think showing unity could be done better without using a song, any song really because unless you speak all the languages there's going to be a lot of it you don't know the words too.
It's a cool idea but I think showing unity could be done better without using a song, any song really because unless you speak all the languages there's going to be a lot of it you don't know the words too.
I understand completely the sentiment against the commercial, with English being the de facto language in the United States..but that's where I can't go any further with the support for the disgruntled people. English isn't the official language...it's de facto. Unless it is changed to official language I can't shed any amount of support. My only concern for the commercial was that it let out German, Dutch, and French the three most common ancestry for Americans.
Christopher Columbus was also not the first European to venture to America, he just maped out with help of others to the islands around America that helped bring in colonization later. He never even set foot on the main land mass of either south or north America and died thinking he just found another route to a new part of Asia/India. Amerigo Vespucci is the guy that figured out it was a new Continent. There is evidence that people of european decent did come to Americas before Columbus time they just never returned so there was no way to tell the other side of the new discovery. Also all the tribes and societies that where already here in America before the european countries destroyed the majority of them through violence and disease... Sorry just find Columbus overrated and a vile human that is praised for things he didn't do or was not the only person there.Private Custard said:
I personally think it is stupid that people are upset that the song is being sung in not English. These people know that the US has no Official Language Right. Sadly though I don't find the fact that people are upset about some thing this trivial all that surprising.
It's worth mentioning that English is a German language.
Made by Germans.
With near identical grammar with German.
From Germany.
Made by Germans.
With near identical grammar with German.
From Germany.
It's not lost on me that you chose one of the most culturally problematic Western European nations, but the question is, would (any given nation) howl and scream that (given language) was not spoken by everyone or that it appeared for a TV commercial?Lightknight said:
Okay so this is the first post I'm responding too and then going to write my own post but... wait WHAT??!! What Scientology commercial? Link that shit to me man!! I didn't even know they put a Scientology commercial in the Super Bowl.GamemasterAnthony said:
On topic: Yeah I really can't wrap my head around why they would be so angry about this, here in Canada they sing our national-anthem in English and French (and I'm sure in a bunch of other languages) and nobody bats an eye, I don't even care what language it's sung in, it's just sad to see this.
A lot of you have called America a "melting pot" but isn't that a bad thing? In my psych text book (or maybe it was my sociology text book) it basically said (I don't remember exactly what it said) that a "melting pot" is bad and whatever word they used to describe Canada was good. I'll go find it and dig it out but until then yeah, I was taught that it's not a great thing.