The Coca-Cola Controversy

Well I was about 55% American on Sunday night, as I rooted my team along (I was proud they won, too by the way.) and watched as they tore down the field and scored on and on. I laughed, cried and smiled my way through the best commercials of the year. And a few points after the half-time show, I hit the sack. Seems as though the flu was keeping me from the one game I watch a year, and one I was particularly interested in. This is A LOT coming from me, I'm generally anti-sports, but I was absolutely enthralled in this game. But alas, I could no longer stay awake, exciting as it was. However before benadryl and general "I'm sick" sleepiness over took my body, I saw one of the BEST commercials I have ever seen, to date. 

This one.





So why am I considering this the best one to date? Because this minute long commercial more accurately portrayed America than any story, description, or detailed 400-page book ever could have. And as an American citizen, I was proud of how well this was done.

I'm choosing to write this, because there was a HUGE controversy that sparked over this 60 second gem. People began trending on twitter #speakAmerican and other more hateful things going from racism, to blaming the commercial as communistic to being as extreme as terrorist. HOW?! I have no logical idea.

America is called the Melting Pot nation. It is a culture made up entirely of other, already existing cultures. I heard someone say once something like "America is a young culture. We are hardly established compared to the world we live in. Most other governments and cultures are far older than ours." Its part of what makes us unique as a culture. We're still figuring things out. We're the "teenagers of the nations," if you will.

If you want to really "speak American" then lets all learn Cherokee or Sioux, because that's American. The English were the invaders. I'm not going to beat a dead horse, or use everyone else's arguments. But I will say, that our forefathers recognized this nation as the nation of open arms, that wants people to come in. Its why France gave us Lady Liberty. We have the "American dream" that people leave their homes for. They don't want to take our jobs, or change our national language, they want to be apart of a nation that is made up of many nations, and continue to make America the beautiful, multicultural nation it is. And that is why, this commercial is so beautiful.