Opinion: #SpeakAmerican
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February 11, 2014
It’s been over a week since the Super Bowl, and in that time, social media in America has once again shown its ugly side. One 90-second ad in particular received a considerable amount of backlash. The commercial, which aired near the middle of Super Bowl XLVIII, was a Coca-Cola ad demonstrating the diversity and beauty of America. The title and tagline of the ad was hashtagged “America is Beautiful,” and a collage of American landscapes, ethnicities and lifestyles set the visual backdrop of the commercial, which featured a rendition of “America The Beautiful” sung in nine different languages, including English, Arabic, Hindi, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Mandarin and Tagalog.