Stupid people offended by Coca Cola commercial

Yup.

There is much more on Twitter + their Facebook page.

What do you think of this ad? I am not American but I thought it was a beautifully done ad with a positive message. Coca Cola has great ads in general.

My post from the Super Bowl thread as the commercial was playing : "I hope this doesn't get Americans mad"

which is?

But you have to consider that some may just be fucking around, making fun of people who would actually feel that way. Plus those who tweet the stuff to seek attention and get it

Just ugly... to hell with them. That really was a good and positive message.

@Storm_Marine: I thought it was pretty obvious that the message was America is a country filled with diversity and that makes it beautiful.

Morons gonna be morons. Shit doesn't even surprise any more, just gets sadder and sadder.

hmmmmm...

er ok

I didn't quite get the purpose of the ad? I wasn't offended it was just a god awful stupid ad to me. How does singing an American song in several different languages in anyway promote Coca-cola.

Typical xenophobic idiots on social media. God forbid we show American who aren't straight, white and speak English.

People are offended by this? Really? WTF?!

This does remind me of how strange it is that the American immigrants that spoke German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, French, Scottish, Irish, and everything else assimilated into English, but oh ho, a special case must be made for Spanish.

Maybe I'm racist against Ibero-Romance languages. "shrugs"

social media has only given idiots a bigger platform to spew their crap.

@ferrari2001: ads also promote the image

This is not as bad as the cheerios commercial with the black little girl and a white mother.

I was joking with some friends the day that commercial aired about the black man scoring a white woman, and I swear the next week it was on CNN/FOX due to an interracial couple being inappropriate/offensive.

I was just trolling - can't believe people are like this irl. I thought this was an advertisement all across the world as Coke doesn't use glass bottles here except for limited editions.

Edit:

It appears cheerios decided to ignore the negative feedback and make a 2nd commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fwH_924WUc#t=13

Coke doesn't have to promote their drink much

Just promote the image, the brand.

Get people talking about the ad,

I have no audio - what's the problem?

They using an Asian song or something?

Was the cowboy at the beginning gay?

called it

also, sent to a friend to rile him up

I did find the Amazon gay couple commercial amusing.

Made me laugh because I was like "Did I just see a gay electronics commercial?".

we need a link

I'm just going to assume that the people who found this ad to be offensive are not smart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY1UIES9wx8&noredirect=1

i think the only amusing part of super bowl commercials is how they serve as a cultural barometer for the country

pretty sure that the scottish and irish populations were forced to learn english well before emigrating to the colonies was the cool thing to do

people are retarted

That was great ad

eh I suppose you're right

Personally I think it's dumb to assume that the people in that commercial do not speak English.

Canada got Quebec, the US got Cajun accents or whatever the heck they're called.

As soon as I heard them switch to spanish I knew this was going to be an issue about "In American we speak english!"

Way to stay focused on the important issues America.

I thought it was quite good.

It celebrates America's diversity while illustrating Coke's American roots that have spread to a global audience.

I knew as I was watching this that conservative commentators would be going crazy over this add, looking forward to the nutty FoxNews reaction, I mean I expect the language to be worse than when that 11 year old mariachi sang the national anthem and all those racists said all that awful shit only people who'd vote Republican would say.

Why? Most people in Miami don't speak English (excluding the white and black areas). Most people in Puerto Rico don't speak English - America has tons of places where English is not the dominate language.

Do you really care about a bunch of comments on twitter? I'm not sure what there is to discuss here..............

There's 300M+ people in America..........

I was not offended by that at all.

@Aljosa23: Nothing wrong with that ad. Like you said, America is a cultural melting pot. I feel that anyone that loves 'murica but is offended by this ad is a hypocrite.

I guess the negative reaction this ad is receiving defeats the purpose of the ad itself. How ironic.

It is not about the Coke commercial, it goes much deeper than that.

America used to be a melting pot, people still claim it is but it most absolutely is not. My family came from Italy in the early 20th century because they wanted to be AMERICANS. They flew the American flag outside their home, they celebrated American culture, they learned English, and they became part of the community. They refused to be Italians living in America, they were Italian-Americans. They held on to their Italian culture (as all should) but embraced America's as well. They melted in with Americans.

THIS is what immigration looked like in the 20th century.

Fast forward to 2014.....and you have a bunch of people from other countries living in America that could not care less about our culture, language, flag, patriotism, or anything else. They refuse to melt in but rather flock together as birds with others from their nation of origin. Instead of keeping their culture and melting it with ours they simply cordon themselves off from the rest of the country and create their own little piece of their country in their neighborhood. This is happening all over America and is the current state of our "melting pot" of water and oil.

So while this commercial should feel good, it does not. If we truly were a melting pot this commercial would be celebrating our diversity, but it is not. All this commercial does is rub salt in the wound.

Yeah that's kind of the point I was trying to make before.

I find it odd that it aimed to be more "culturally friendly" but they kept going back to English when they should have been hitting more languages.

Seriously? Why is it the only things considered cultural in America is crap that is not American? We have our culture too, and this song is part of AMERICAN culture. To even hint it should not have had any English in it at all is absurd.

I never said have no English silly, starting off with English and then making their way around major languages is a nice touch -- it's a small world style or something. My only point, and a minor one at that, is that it was odd that they wouldn't hit more languages in the commercial when they had ample opportunities.

Eh...this year the commercials didn't seem much. As for the Coke commercial....wouldn't incite me to buy Coke. Kind of boring really....

I thought it was awesome and beautiful. America is home to every culture/ethnic background in the world. She was built by immigrants and is filled and maintained by immigrants and their offspring.

Imo, America has always been about one country for all people...that very diversity is what makes America so great.

To me, that commercial was not about a bunch of racially diverse Americans singing a song. It was about a bunch of random people from different ethnicities who happen to live in America. If you want to be an American you should learn English. I wouldn't move to Spain and not learn Spanish, and I sure as hell wouldn't sing a song about Spanish heritage in English. Maybe if it was a bunch of people singing the song in English with different accents it would have had a better impact.