Coca-Cola Super Bowl Ad: Un-American?

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Beverage giant Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl commercial featuring a multilingual presentation of “America the Beautiful” sparked major online controversy Sunday night, including accusations that the TV spot was “un-American.”
Horribly Dumb Racist Nutjobs: Coca Cola Super Bowl Commercial Sparks Major Debate About American Culture

The ad, titled “It’s Beautiful,” featured different scenes from American life, including people sharing a meal, swimming in the ocean, horseback riding, taking a road trip and more, all to the sounds of “America the Beautiful.”

The song, however, was sung in a variety of languages, generating an angry response from some on Twitter who said Coca-Cola should have presented it in English only, and causing users to jump on the hashtag “speakAmerican.”

“Really #**** come on we live in the USA so sing the song in English,” Twitter user @jaredl83 wrote.

“That is the most un-American commercial I have ever seen,” said @B_Wett4.

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Former Florida Rep. Allen West also jumped into the debate, penning a blog post on his website in which he called the commercial “truly disturbing.”

“I am quite sure there may some who appreciated the commercial, but Coca Cola missed the mark in my opinion [sic],” West wrote. “If we cannot be proud enough as a country to sing ‘American the Beautiful’ in English in a commercial during the Super Bowl, by a company as American as they come — doggone we are on the road to perdition.”

West concluded, “This was a truly disturbing commercial for me, what say you?”

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