America Is Beautiful

Last Monday there was plenty of talk around town about the Super Bowl.  Just about everyone thought it was a total bust from the game to the half time show to the commercials.  Most of these conversations ended with, "Hey, what did you think of that Coke commercial"?  Many, after careful consideration said that they were offended by it and shame on Coke for doing it.  In case you missed it, Coke had several young bi-lingual American women sing America The Beautiful in another language.  In a spot called It's Beautiful, this patriotic tune was sung in English, Spanish, Tagalog, Mandarin, Hindi, Hebrew, Keres, Senegalese-French and Arabic.  This set the country on its ear which solicited many opinions on Facebook and Twitter.  Even the mainstream media got involved as did our politicians.  For days, this was a hot topic all over the country. 

So why all the hub bub?  Well, in the eyes of many Americans, the song America The Beautiful is sacred and should only be sung in English.  In my mind there are only two other patriotic songs more sacred, God Bless America and The National Anthem.  Should they be sung in English only?  Sure, but I get what Coke was doing here.  America has always been a melting pot of all ethnic backgrounds.  People from all over the word aspire to come to America.  Two of the girls that had parts responded to all of this by saying,      


"The message that we're sending through this video is so beautiful, that we are all the same," said Sushmitha, who sings in Hindi, in a YouTube video posted by Coca-Cola. "We just have different backgrounds and that's OK."

Everybody, they want to come into America to be free and make friends and just be happy," said Natalie, who sang in Hebrew,
 

I have to admit, I have no problem with this at all.  I thought the commercial was tastefully done and sent the message that we are all Americans.  Even with all our shortcomings, we all love our country and would defend it with our lives.  It doesn't matter what language we sing it in, America id beautiful and no one can take it away from us.  Heck, the seal of The United States of America is printed with a foreign language on it....E Pluribus Unum.  Which by the way is Latin for "Out of many, one".  I bet all of those haters out there forgot about this little tid-bit.  To sum this all up, grow up people and smell your stench emanating from your own filthy spewing pie hole.  It will turn your own stomach so "SHUT THE HELL UP"!  I say you go Coke. You have everybody talking about your product and that is marketing genius.