In this cute Christmas ad for Verizon, a bunch of attractive young people take Verizon stuff (cell phones, tablets, a smart watch, headphones {Verizon headphones?}) out of a red box symbolizing Christmas gifts, set to the tune of a song sung in Spanish. (The ad is called: “Caras”, but I’m afraid I don’t know the song.)
Well, this is cute and all, but there will undoubtedly be plenty of outcry from some Americans complaining about advertising kowtowing to immigrants with a song in Spanish, so to avoid losing their demographic, perhaps Verizon can also make a Christmas ad where right wingers take Christmas gifts out of a green box (Red symbolizes communism, you remember. Although green symbolizes the environmental movement, so maybe a white box?), all to the tune of SOD’s “Speak English or Die”. Then Verizon would show they have something for everyone this holiday season.
(This is just a joke, so please don’t kill me.)
Here’s the Spanish singing spot:
Here’s the song “Speak English or Die” (I think the song was intended as absurdist humor too, or at least as social commentary):
BTW: This ad was shown during the SEC championship game, and unless I am very much mistaken, there will be lots of people watching that game today who are, shall we say, “concerned” about the immigration issue, and have an attitude about not wanting Americans to have to speak Spanish in an “I’ll speak Spanish when you pry English from by cold, dead mouth” sort of way. So I’m lampooning that issue. But I don’t share their sentiments, and if everyone were taught Spanish in school here, we would be a bilingual country, and everyone would understand everyone else (of the two dominant American cultures), and it would become a non-issue. (That of course assumes our education system could adequately teach our children, which it doesn’t seem to anymore thanks to our friends in Washington.)
