Coke's "America The Beautiful" Commercial
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.
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.
Today we have Balkanization - multiple nationalities that keep themselves separate in nearly every way - language, culture, food, etc.
The old adage that America was the "melting pot of the world," has ceased to be. To the detriment of the nation. This is being fostered by the progressives who use it to pit one group against the other.
One is about "melting pot"-taking the best and integrating it into the american culture of natural rights and freedoms. The other is about Balkanization and possibly celebrating irrational differences.
I, personally, love the cultural aspects of various cuisines (I love food - all types). But if I cannot order in an ethnic restaurant (and I have travelled internationally, so I'm used to pointing and gesturing, just don't want to have to do so at the restaurant down the street from my home), then I am much less likely to frequent that restaurant.
And yes, we were a "monoculture" as you put it.
We had our own culture, made from but unique (and superior) to the old world cultures of Europe and Africa, and the cultures of the Americas, which barely exist anymore, having largely been assimilated by Spanish-derived cultures... the thing you wish to condemn us for, and the cultures you expect us to embrace and allow to supersede our own.
I live in another country!!
I am questioning the point of the commercial. The US has been essentially "monolingual" since before the Declaration of Independence. The official language of this country has been English, both in business and in government. The Coke commercial was pretending to be inclusive while purposefully marginalizing US melting pot culture and tradition.
What has changed is that, back then, the world knew American culture was like Rearden Metal; Good. Now the world sees American culture as, and our very own children are taught, that American culture is made of Associated Steel; Bad.
Nixon was trying to broker a way out of a war we were way too deep into, and in return for China's help, they got Pepsi (and Mao got his Salem CIgarettes). Part of the reason I was a Coke drinker... and (I'm sure) never liked menthols. ;-)
To be consistent with that commercial, and Rand's teachings...
Rand said that the smallest minority is the individual; so the ultimate diversity is individuality.
so everyone in that commercial should have sung the tune in his/her own, unique to him/her language.
Oh, wait, that would have resulted in a babble nobody could understand. There would be no communication. So maybe if they all sang it in English... oh, wait, that wouldn't have encouraged diversity...
(there's a reason I used the word 'babble' above)
Kinda like singing that song in a multitude of tongues.
"They builded a tower to shiver the sky and wrench the stars apart,
Till the Devil grunted behind the bricks: "It's striking, but is it Art?"
The stone was dropped at the quarry-side and the idle derrick swung,
While each man talked of the aims of Art, and each in an alien tongue."
- Kipling 'Conundrum of the Workshops'
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/ki...
It is a good example of why I don't waste time and money on movies or tv. Too much brainwashing propaganda.
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.
Hey, can anyone find me the lyrics to the song in C++? That's the language I want to sing it in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtEzZEe_5...
You're the first person other than me that I've found willing to admit this.
\o/ is arms upraised over the head in a cheer.
More simply... yea!
just for devil's advocate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Y3L0s1m...
So were the waves of amber grain, and them big ole mountains, and of course there was no sky here til we had a Constitution.
It's a tribute to the CONTINENT, not to the NATION.
http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/educatio...
I never could handle the idea that hunter-gatherers in a stone-age level of civilization could teach iron-age people who invented the plowshare and used steel tools how to grow crops.
I'd like to do some research on pre-Columbian tribes and find out the forms of their society. I wouldn't be surprised to find a strong collectivist culture among many of them. I never otherwise can account for them, even though the Americas have been populated long before the first civilizations got their start in Africa and Mesopotamia, being stuck in the stone age, and never rising beyond it.
Did you know why dogs are smarter than cats?
Dogs are social animals.
just fyi.
I found this amusing...
"It starts with the argument that a bigger brain must be better since it allows more memory storage and faster processing simply because it would have more neurons and connections. For example, a person with a brain size of 1500 cm3 would have an average of 600 million more cortical neurons than a person with a brain size of 1400 cm3. So the first guess might be that animals that have bigger brains must be smarter."
Cro-Magnon brain size, 1400cc... Neanderthal brain size... 1600cc... Oh, and Cro-Magnon was just a big bigger than Neanderthal, overall.
"A thoroughfare
for freedom beat "
Go read the poem which, incidentally Bates submitted for publishing in a special July 4 The Congregationalist.
"Thine alabaster cities gleam
undimmed by human tears..."
Sit down son
You really want me to dissect the thing here?
Cause if I do, I'll compare it stanza by stanza to the Star Spangled Banner.
Maybe some of you have forgotten that the left has been trying to replace the Star Spangled Banner with this for decades. I haven't.
y'know what? I started my analysis, got about halfway through the song, then came to the realization that I don't give a shit.
Like it. Blind yourself to the collectivist sentiments that dominate it, and the way it confuses the continent with the nation; it sounds pretty (to you) so, wallow in it.
I got more important concerns.
You know how I loathe Holmes. He probably added the 3rd verse, the bit about traitors.
I'm not big on national anthems.we went a long time without needing one.
I would try to convince her why it shouldn't, and why the Star Spangled Banner should, be our national anthem.
I'm neither for or against national anthems; like anything, they can be abused, but they do serve a purpose in a society to use Man's natural tribal tendency to promote cultural cohesion as a counter-balance to multiculturalism.
I like the Star Spangled Banner because, unlike ATB, it celebrates the nation, but more importantly, it makes the flag of the United States a symbol of freedom, akin to Atlantis' sign of the dollar. $
And not "freedom" as some abstract concept:
"And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"
Freedom... as something that is under incessant bombardment;
as something besieged;
as something that must be defended.
It condemns those who would choose appeasement to liberty.
"And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!"
Again, at the end, it reiterates that the tree of liberty must be renewed afresh with the blood of patriots and tyrants:
"Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!"
Not initiating force, but responding with force.
The Star Spangled Banner is an affirmation of what the Founding Fathers believed, and what the country is all about.
And I don't see ATB, as pretty as it may be, performing the same service.
As for my loathing of Holmes... he wasn't alive before the Confederate War; he made his famous "fire in a crowded theater" decision, curse him for it, in 1919.
so picture "continent" and "nation" in italics
After hearing both, I preferred the Japanese version; the English just didn't sound quite right...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlwSPMwAq...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPW7BEagn...
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.
hey, the right hand side of this text box is cut off, so I can't change its size :(
As far as the song goes, English, damn it!!
http://media.brisbanetimes.com.au/featur...