Anbyone else offended by the Coke commercial

[sandorski]

Google Translate never gets the grammar right.

true, but neither do many of us speaking our native tongue, so....

:biggrin:

 

[piasabird]

I don't watch TV.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I'm getting the feeling that xenophobia is equated to evil. Why?

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

 

[Jaskalas]

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Proper communication can alleviate fear. That requires speaking to people in a language they understand.

 

[Geosurface]

Liberalism leads to cowardice. Cowardice leads to vulnerability. Vulnerability leads to annihilation by those who still have some sense of themselves and the will to pursue their interests.

Much liberalism in this thread do I sense.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Liberalism leads to cowardice. Cowardice leads to vulnerability. Vulnerability leads to annihilation by those who still have some sense of themselves and the will to pursue their interests.

Much liberalism in this thread do I sense.

 

[Orignal Earl]

EDIT: Right after posting this I remembered I was going to try not to respond to Earl anymore. Damn it.

Why me? There's like only 2 people on this board who agree with your views.
Do I hurt your feelings or something?

 

[VRAMdemon]

Lol!...offended by a commercial?!?! You gotta be kidding me.

 

[irishScott]

Not offended, but I do agree with this:

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

-President Theodore Roosevelt

Singing our national tunes in foreign languages isn't offensive in and of itself, but it could be if it's done with the wrong intent. I don't have enough information to discern said intent behind that commercial, so until I do I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.