Sunday, February 2, 2014

Fracas about Coca Cola Ad for Superbowl- Salon


Coca-Cola’s multilingual Super Bowl ad is driving Twitter xenophobes crazy

Apparently singing "America the Beautiful" in multiple languages is worthy of a boycott VIDEO

To see video causing all the uproar, go to

 

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/03/coca_colas_bilingual_super_bowl_ad_is_driving_twitter_xenophobes_crazy/

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/03/coca_colas_bilingual_super_bowl_ad_is_driving_twitter_xenophobes_crazy/



Coca-Cola’s big Super Bowl ad this year featured a rendition of “America the Beautiful” sung in multiple languages, alongside sweeping images of America’s landscape and its people.
It was extremely patriotic, wholesome, and altogether unobjectionable in every way.
Cue xenophobes on Twitter threatening to boycott Coke in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…

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For what it’s worth, part of the reason the #boycottcoke hashtag took off was righteous tweeters trolling xenophobes like the ones above. So we’re not all terrible.
And here’s the 60-second version of the ad, in case you missed it:

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