Apparently, some people got their panties in a bunch over the multi-lingual Coke Commercial

[MrScorpio]

America is still a nation of immigrants… Suck it, assholes.


From the Coke Facebook page:







https://www.facebook.com/cocacola

What a bunch of losers

[Agschmid]

1. I'm glad I don't ever have to enjoy my coke with these assholes.

My coke and I'm not sharing.

[Skittles]

2. some people = racist / xenophobic assholes

yes INDEED

[appleannie1]

3. I hate to correct them but if a native language is what they crave, we should all speak some tribal

native American. Iroquois, Seneca, Cherokee, Apache, whatever. I have to wonder what their ancestors spoke. The only way they spoke English is if they came here from England. I know my grandmother spoke German as well as all her close friends. My husband's grandparents and their friends spoke Italian. So I really don't understand where they get their outrageous idea that everyone here always spoke English.

[randr]

4. Maybe Coke could get MSNBC to issue an apology

[TheMathieu]

5. I dedicate my next Coke Zero to them. nt

[Stargazer09]

6. I still prefer Coke over Pepsi

And those people are racist, xenophobic assholes who just let the world know their true colors.

I loved that commercial. My kids did, too.

[JDPriestly]

7. Dummies all. Foreign languages open up the world. A bilingual child is so lucky.

These bigots are afraid of something they don't understand. We just can't expect much of them.

lthough over 50 million Americans claim German ancestry, which makes them the largest single ethnic group in the country, only around 1.38 million people speak German in the United States.[5] It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota.[6]

. . . .

Since the mass emigration of Germans to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s, all through the 1800s, and into the early 20th century, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States after English. It was spoken by millions of immigrants from Germany, Switzerland, and the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, and their descendants. Many newspapers, churches and schools operated in German as did many businesses. The use of the language was strongly suppressed by social and legal means during World War I, and German declined as a result, limiting the widespread use of the language mainly to Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities. After the First World War, German lost its position as the second most widely spoken language in the United States.[7][8] German became the second most widely spoken language in the U.S. starting with mass emigration from the German Palatinate and adjacent areas, to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s, though there had been some immigration as far back as the 1680s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language_in_the_United_States

We used to be a nation of many languages because we had immigrants from many countries. We still do, and we still are. Nothing has changed except the sound of the languages. We have always been a polyglot nation. The people who claim otherwise are ignorant. Most of them need only look at the names and languages of their own ancestors to learn that their forefathers spoke a language other than English.

[G_j]

8. that's beautiful

[Bonobo]

9. Why "panties"?

I never understood that phrase but it sounds pretty sexist.

[seattledo]

35. Because they hate women (ntxt)

[Igel]

41. Unclear.

"Panties" was first a condescending way of referring to men's pants. If you were a real man you wore pants; if you were acting immature or effeminate, you wore "little pants" or "panties."

The word spread to "bloomers" later.


The "panties in a bunch" is the American (via Australian English) variant of "knickers in a twist." Which surfaces first in the very early 1970s, and is apparently from a British tv show from the late '60s. Given how scurrilous British humor could be ...

In any event, within a year of its being coined it was used unisex. Might have been unisex from the get-go. I'm more likely to say it to a guy.


I tried to find out if it's related to "don't get your nappy in a knot"--which has to date to at least 1972 or '73 but can't find squat. The meanings line up, and "knickers in a twist" might be a grown-up variant of "nappy in a knot". Or maybe the "knickers" line was made more condescending by implying the other person was a baby.

[TlalocW]

10. I prefer Pepsi

But I have a Coke every now and then to mix things up.

The amazing thing about this is that all the nutjob conservatives who are upset about this are providing a real world example of that experiment where there are two groups of people in differently-colored uniforms, weaving around each other, and passing basketballs back and forth to members of their team. You're told to count the number of passes the red team makes, and you're so intent on that, you're supposed to fail to notice the guy int he gorilla suit walk calmly out into the middle of them, face the camera, and then turn and walk off again. (I didn't... I was 1, 2, 3, 4 what's with the gorilla? 5, 6, 7...) The people who run the experiment say that most people just don't see Magilla during the experiment.

Their hatred of multiculturalism/foreign languages has blinded them to the fact that at 43 seconds in there's a couple of gay dads roller-skating with their daughter. I've been monitoring several different conservative sites - even pointing this out to them - and they never noticed or can't let go of their English-Only-based hatred when they do notice.

It's weird.

TlalocW

[SMC22307]

11. "Should of been sung in English," Pati?

Ahem.

You gotta wonder where people like Sean "@CocaCola kill yourselves" works. I cannot in a million years imagine expressing a sentiment like that, let alone attaching my name to it on freakin' Twitter!

[frazzled]

12. What about "Eanglish only" ...

from JacknSheryl

That's a classic (and I don't mean Coke Classic).

Note to JacknSheryl: I actually haven't drunk a Coke in 10 years, but not because they didn't sing the song in "Eanglish."

[SMC22307]

24. LOL Those damn "imagrants" and their anti-American "commericals"!

And who knew? "American the Beautiful" is our national anthem!

I am SO thankful for my family -- a couple of us, ages 16 to 75, were texting about how lovely the ad was!

[Jamaal510]

16. Who knows

""Should of been sung in English,"

if that person has even set foot inside of an English class before. Even when I was in the 4th grade, I knew that the correct way is "should have", not "should of".

[SMC22307]

26. "I'm entitle to my opinion so zip it!"

Oh my God. The comments are painful to read. Well, some of them. Some give me hope.

[Igel]

44. "Should've."

But that's never taught to kids, so when they run into the contracted form of "should have" they have no ready orthography.

Yes, I even write things like "shouldn't've" when I think it's important to make sure that the style and register are accurately perceived.

In response to the argument, "we have 'shouldn't have'," my response is that we also have "should not have" and consequently must have no need of "shouldn't." Vowel reduction and syncope aren't for the faint of heart.

[targetpractice]

13. Choke on this Tagalog version, new Pepsi drinkers...

Upon edit: Full disclosure... I've always thought that Coca-Cola (with real cane sugar) is the best tasting thing invented by humankind... ever.

[JEB]

18. The coke in glass bottles from Mexico has real cane sugar and tastes

way better than the corn syrup laced stuff made in USA.

[targetpractice]

23. Indeed... It seems the parent company has officially blessed Coca-Cola "Hecho en México" ...

It was hard to find in bodegas for many years, but it is now available in NYC from Fine Fare, FreshDirect, Costco, etc.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT.

[jazzimov]

14. Reminds me of an old joke

what do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?

Bi-lingual.

what do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?

Tri-lingual.

what do you call someone who only speaks 1 language?

American.

[JEB]

15. Coke is happily celebrating

the Right Wing's self destruction. The free market is leaving the bigot station and it ain't coming back.

[3catwoman3]

17. Many years ago...

... a friend of ours whose husband was a minister, told us the story of one member of their congregation who did not approve of other languages being taught in his community's schools. His rationale - "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me." I was incredulous.

One of the other DU threads on this topic includes a tweet from a twit who is objecting to the national anthem (sic) being sung in other languages. Dumb ass doesn't even know what he's talking about.

[Whisp]

19. The language in that commercial was $$$$$

just sayin

[Rex]

20. Ah yes, Land of Diversity.

Well not THOSE guys. Funny they have no problem with a corporation owning...ahem...the National Anthem. I mean...threatening to drink WATER!!?!

Think of the children!

[Aristus]

21. Hey, PatiWoodburn!

It's "should HAVE" not should OF"

Try learning the language you are so blockheadedly advocating for.

I loved that commercial, and I absolutely knew it was going to rattle the monkey cages of the right-wing. Sure enough, the feces-flinging has started...

[icymist]

22. When did America the Beautiful become our National Anthem?

I guess that Mike ill drink water. Psssst. Mike....Coke also sells water. I don't know if it is ill water, though.

[diabeticman]

25. Is this the commercial people are POed about?

These people make me ashamed I am an American not the commercial.

[countryjake]

33. Yes, and here's the behind-the-scenes companion video...

[joshcryer]

27. The US is still the most immigrated to country on the planet.

It is the one thing that indicates that the US isn't reviled by the rest of the world.

[pnwmom]

28. I'm really surprised they're all fine with the gay fathers and their daughter,

holding hands on the ice-skating rink.

[SMC22307]

31. I don't think they've quite figured it out yet. (n/t)

[Son of Gob]

29. I knew this would happen

The best is the one who's going back to water. It's the first occurrence of bigotry I've seen that makes someone healthier.

[VanillaRhapsody]

30. My first thought about the water comment was..

not if you live in West Virginia you ninny!

[mrmpa]

32. My 83 year old mother and I.......

watched that commercial and loved it. I began to wonder how many people before immigrating to the US, knew that song and sang it to themselves in their language. Probably many.

Bigots are bigots, stupid, disingenuous, unwilling to learn the truths, and above all not worthy of my time.

[Vashta Nerada]

34. Nothing like a harmful corporation using a cunning display of diversity to sell us empty calories

at the tune of American capitalism.

Yay USA!!1111

[RandySF]

36. Eanglish?

[Iris]

37. like I give a shit about what makes Emily Walden happy

Social media makes me weary

[newfie11]

38. Gee many posters can't spell in English

I'm sure none speak another language or are friends with others of a different culture!
I am sick of ugly Americans telling the world it's our way only. It's time we learned we are far from perfect in many things.

Time we as American learn from others and stop being so arrogant!!!!!!

[hatrack]

39. Good thing these butt-clowns are focusing on what really matters . . .

A Coke commercial during the Super Bowl . . .

[Capt. Obvious]

40. Ha! I knew that was going to happen when I saw that commercial

Here is Mediate's roundup

TPM's coverage

[tanyev]

42. Alright, but if you pray the Lord's Prayer you have to do it in the original Aramaic.

Latin only for the Catholic Mass. German only for Silent Night and O Christmas Tree.

[Bluenorthwest]

43. I only drink Coke imported from Mexico, hecho en Mexico. Coke is multi lingual.

English speaking Coke has HFCS but Coke in Spanish has real sugar.