Posted on 05/24/2013 10:15:55 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Yes, I realize that the ultimate goal is for the Coca-Cola Company to sell as many cans of dark, fizzy, flavored water as it can (I get that), but I found this ad for Coke quite touching and inspiring nevertheless.
Bringing India & Pakistan Together With a Coke
They are the same ethnicity and until he British left the same country. It is the intolerant religion of peace that is the biggest problem in the sub continent.
I think the intent is pretty neat, but sometimes these things backfire for reasons no one expects.
Then the Coke machine exploded. Mohamed told them to kill the infidel!
They’re removing all bovine and porcine ingredients?
There’s already a bunch of Muslims in India, and a fair number of Hindus in Pak. The general public on both sides actually get along fairly well already, and the Indian government is generally open to trying to work out problems. The main obstacle is the heavily-entrenched faction in the Pak government that is controlled by the ISI. If that lot were to disappear tomorrow, life on both sides of the border would get a lot more comfortable.
better Coke than that stupid symbol from Pepsi which reminds me of that political symbol that represents brain-dead voters..
UHHH, Not so much. Pakistan is 95 - 98% Islam. less than 3% are either Christian or Hindu. In India according to the 2001 census, 80.5% of the population of India practice Hinduism. Islam (13.4%), Christianity (2.3%), Sikhism (1.9%), Buddhism (0.8%) and Jainism (0.4%)
Religious disputes are rampant between the Muslims and the Hindus. That is why there is a Pakistan at all. They couldn’t get along. Particularly the Muslims.
I have been told by a former USN translator that in UAE the preferred cola is Pepsi. Something about Muslims not liking Coca Cola and some alleged Jewish influence within the company.
The main problem in India-Pakistan relations are the Pashtu and Baluch.
That is the center of hard line political Islamism.
If it was just ethnic Punjabis and other “Indian” ethnicities the Pakistan Army, Intelligence, and Secret Police would not be able to bully the civilian government and society in general into a hard line anti-Indian stance.
BTW 97% of Pakistan is Muslim and 2.3% are officially non-Muslim Ahmadhis. Therefore Hindus are a tiny minority in Pakistan.
I served in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1980. Pepsi was allowed to market not only there, but throughout the Arab world, and Coke was not, for one reason, and one reason alone. Coca-Cola had the audacity to market in Israel, and Pepsi did not.
To this day, I cannot abide the taste of Pepsi in the least. Not specifically because they chose the Arab world while Coke chose to market in Israel, and thereby forgo the Arab market, but largely because the Arab 'version' consisted of approximately 75% syrup to 25% water. Try drinking *that* for twelve months, and see if it doesn't permanently affect you, as it did me...
the infowarrior
Do that in North Korea and South Korea. Screw the Chicoms.
Sure. And the angry intolerant bearded savage headchoppers are going to sip their soda and turn into warm kind tolerant civilized people who love their neighbors.
Thanks rickmichaels.
The ethnic Baloch are the most pro-India, anti-Pakistan part of the population in that country. The Muslim Punjabis (most dominant ethnicity in Pakistan) hate the Indian (Sikh and Hindu) Punjabi guts.
The Sindhis are ambivalent towards India, as are the Pashto. Afghan Pashtun are pro-India.
Having lived in the Persian Gulf for a wee bit from the late 80s till about six years ago, I can say that the locals seem to barely discriminate between either of the two cola majors. Even had a relative who was employed with Coke in one Gulf state, who said that his product had the upper hand in sales in the mid-90s.
Can’t blame the Pashtuns and Baluchis when Punjab is the centre of both political and military power in Pakistan. Baluchis hardly figure in the equation-they have as much influence there as Chechens have in Russia.
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