Coca Cola Commercial

In the rest of the world learning English is important.
Learning any here is a liberal wet dream and a waist of college tuition.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Cause there are a lot of people who are scared to death by the unknown and since their education in foreign languages in this country is a national joke they get angry at those who do. Most of the world doesn't really consider a person educated unless they learn to speak at least one foreign language. My wife speaks 5. She's like "What is it with Americans and learning languages? It's not like it's rocket surgery. We teach them to 6 year olds."
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You sure do have lots of biases don't you. Cracks me up when I see the self proclaimed tolerant be so intolerant.

Actually, if you weren't so ignorant, you would know that learning new languages at an older age is actually quite difficult. Much easier at a young age. But please don't allow biases and your prejudices get in the way of your intolerance.
 
Teflon Don said:
You sure do have lots of biases don't you. Cracks me up when I see the self proclaimed tolerant be so intolerant.

Actually, if you weren't so ignorant, you would know that learning new languages at an older age is actually quite difficult. Much easier at a young age. But please don't allow biases and your prejudices get in the way of your intolerance.
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Natutunan ko Tagalog kapag ako ay 45 po.
 
aaronleland said:
I thought it was a beautiful commercial.

I can understand people being indifferent towards the commercial, but how can you really hate it?
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I think it was a waste of $4m, but so were most of the ads. The marketing people who came up with 95% of them should be fired.
 
If you disliked the "Coke" Commercial, are you brave enough to tell us why?
 
Superfreak said:
Can you tell us what you liked about it? What about that commercial makes you want to go buy Coke?
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So, Ill answer your question, even though you are refusing to answer mine.

Your question assumes I liked it. I never said that, I liked parts of it and was ambivalent about other parts.

It did not make me want to buy a Coke, I gave up soda several years ago and have had a hard time with it. My body is/was used to having large amounts of high fructuous corn sugar and getting away from it has been difficult for me. But mostly I have no desire for Coke.

If I am evaluating the commercial in the way a Coke executive would, I suspect it was a failure as it relates to me. As it relates to the population in general, I suspect it was successful as many people are talking about Coke today and the commercial, evoked a mildly patriotic and nostalgic feeling that Coke has always attempted to engender toward its product. Some wackos are upset about it, but largely the future of America probably felt good about it.

Now, I did like the message, that America is a melting pot, and that there is more out there in this nation than just what is in my neighborhood, town, State, ethnic group, etc. It was a reminder that America is made up of huge variety in "types" of people in a huge variety of situations. We are, and really always have been a mix of ethnicities and nationalities making up a great nation. To me the symbolism of the familiar tune being sung in different languages was comfortable and reaffirming of my idea of America.
 
Superfreak said:
I think it was a waste of $4m, but so were most of the ads. The marketing people who came up with 95% of them should be fired.
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Actually I think it was a brilliant ad. My wife prefers Pepsi but when she heard part of the song being sung in Tagalog she got a big kick out of that. If the add appeals to the some 30 to 50 million immigrants in this nation then it was smart advertising money.
 
Jarod said:
So, Ill answer your question, even though you are refusing to answer mine.

Your question assumes I liked it. I never said that, I liked parts of it and was ambivalent about other parts.

It did not make me want to buy a Coke, I gave up soda several years ago and have had a hard time with it. My body is/was used to having large amounts of high fructuous corn sugar and getting away from it has been difficult for me. But mostly I have no desire for Coke.

If I am evaluating the commercial in the way a Coke executive would, I suspect it was a failure as it relates to me. As it relates to the population in general, I suspect it was successful as many people are talking about Coke today and the commercial, evoked a mildly patriotic and nostalgic feeling that Coke has always attempted to engender toward its product. Some wackos are upset about it, but largely the future of America probably felt good about it.

Now, I did like the message, that America is a melting pot, and that there is more out there in this nation than just what is in my neighborhood, town, State, ethnic group, etc. It was a reminder that America is made up of huge variety in "types" of people in a huge variety of situations. We are, and really always have been a mix of ethnicities and nationalities making up a great nation. To me the symbolism of the familiar tune being sung in different languages was comfortable and reaffirming of my idea of America.
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I don't think Coke was targeting your average American for this commercial so much as they were towards Immigrants and since we are a nation built upon immigrants I thought it was a great commercial....though I'm like you...I don't drink soda....well at least not often.
 
Jarod said:
Strange that nobody is willing to say what they did not like about it.
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I think it would be fair to say that they did not like that it wasn't sang in English. Maybe if they had the experience that I have had of being married to an immigrant who has became a citizen and who loves this country very much they would see it in a different light.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I think it would be fair to say that they did not like that it wasn't sang in English. Maybe if they had the experience that I have had of being married to an immigrant who has became a citizen and who loves this country very much they would see it in a different light.
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You are likely correct, I would just like to hear it from them. I simply cannot imagine why that would bother anyone, this is America, we celebrate differences and our strength comes from the variety of people who came here. English is not American, its English, we are separate from that cultural root.

I was wondering if they were upset because there were two men holding hands toward the end.
 
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