Posted on 02/02/2014 5:00:41 PM PST by goodwithagun
Multilingual "America the Beautiful"?
How about respecting our culture. America the Beautiful was written in English so sing it in English. Ever heard The Internationale sung in English?
I guess I am one of the few people who liked the taste of the new coke better.
I like the old coke poured into a glass or from a glass bottle but can’t take it from a can.
Most bottled drinks, including water and sports drinks, are bottled by either Coca Cola or Pepsi. Maybe try SodaStream?
I thought it was a GREAT commercial....
...for SodaStream.
#SorryCokeandPepsi
I thought it was a terrible waste of their advertising dollars.
I have read so many offensive anti-immigrant posts on FR in the last few weeks that I actually cancelled my monthly payment today because I don’t want to support anything that gives people like you a forum.
I did this even though I suspect that many of the most ravingly anti-immigrant (particularly, anti-Hispanic) posters here are probably Dem plants trying to (and succeeding in) riling up the latent nativists. Of course, they never mention the LEGALLY imported Muslims living on federal and state handouts and planting bombs in their spare time, while the Mexican gardeners are actually out there just cutting people’s lawns.
It’s a pity that you’re being used like this, but that’s what it is, and I sure don’t want to contribute to it.
Barf!
I need no one to “school” me on my daughter’s history education, thank you.
Why didn’t they sing the Star at half time?
The thing is, immigrants of the past wanted to be AMERICANS...they learned the language and culture as soon as possible. They had their old country traditions, recipes, history, ect. which they kept and passed down, but when they came here they became Americans. Now they do not want to become Americans, they want to bring their third world countries (plural because it is not just people from Mexico that do this) with them. What about our culture? We are losing our culture with this salad bowl liberal multiculturalism nonsense.
But I hated that commercial. In grade school, we were taught that America is a melting pot. Then, later, America became a mossaic where we are one but everyone keeps their own identity.
Progressives don't understand or want liberty.
Take the most offensive post you can find about illegal immigrants, multiply it by 10 and that might express my attitude towards those who push them on us.
Perfect!
Well, it’s just that the whole “hype” this year has been downright wild-eyed and manic. There’s always hype, but there’s something almost surreal and unhinged about it this year. Reminded me of all the news-stories around Thanksgiving about “Black Friday,” which had gotten so grotesquely out-of-hand.
The air of calculatedly pumped-up excitement and unnatural pleas of excitement almost seems akin to a prisoner behind the Iron Curtain forced to read a propaganda script before the cameras. The whole thing has struck me as “off.”
My mistake on the Star Spangled Banner. Missed it. Don’t watch a lot of football.
I had the same thought - the saving grace of the spot.
I suspect broadcasts outside the USA are already translated into the home country language.
The ads are lame this year.
Progressivism destroys everything it touches.
I see your point. But, English or not, keep in mind that they were singing an American, patriotic song. The fact that they were singing in their native language does not, to me, seem like a rejection of American culture, nor is it unique to the current wave of immigrants - historically the pattern has been that (1) first generation immigrants have largely spoken their native tongue, picking up a bit of English; (2) second-generation immigrants speak English in public and the native tongue at home; and (3) third-generation speaks mostly English, retaining just a bit of the mother tongue.
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