My response to Coca Colas commercial: Language is a very powerful thing. There is evidence that learning multiple languages will actually increase your raw intelligence. We would all do well, for ourselves and our culture, to learn other languages. Moreover, anytime a group of immigrantsassimilate into American culture, they necessarily bring elements of their culture and language to the party. Thats why so much of Modern English is made up of so-called loanwords. If you think you speak English, try to read Beowolfe. The point is that such contributions to our culture are the nature and beauty of the Great Melting Pot. But, that said, there is a culture war in this nation, one where immigrants, especially many here illegally, have begun to refuse to assimilate. Instead of becoming part of ours, they demand to preserve their own culture and language, and they demand that Americans accomodate them. Instead of contributing to the Great Melting Pot, instead of being like water for chocolate, instead of bringing the beauty of synergy to our culture, they offer only division and separation. They offer only old and ugly ideas, once known by such labels as separate but equal, or apartheid, ideas that have been tried in the furnace of history and exposed as cultural dross and slag, repugnant ideas that deserve no further consideration than to be scraped off and discarded. And then, to add insult to injury, they and their supporters, leftist Americans filled with self-loathing who believe our nation deserves to be punished, un-Americans who actually defend our enemies, try to obfuscate their treachery by vilifying anyone who so much as notices, or even worse dares to object. In the final analysis, there are only two hyphens for Americans. Youre either a Fellow-American, or youre an Un-American! Coca Colas ad may have been intended as a modern version of their now famous Id Like to Teach the World to Sing commercial of decades past, and it may have been beautifully rendered, but it was done with a deaf ear to our current political reality. Ooops indeed.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:02:45 +0000
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