{"id":4528,"date":"2014-02-06T12:37:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T17:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2014-02-10T12:52:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T17:52:24","slug":"the-beauty-of-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/2014\/02\/06\/the-beauty-of-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Hausbeck &#8217;15<\/p>\n<p><em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be an American? Does it mean wearing a ten gallon hat and riding horses under the big open sky or sitting down to a turkey dinner with the entire extended family? Or could it possibly mean something entirely different?<\/p>\n<p>The Coca-Cola Company had a pretty good idea of what it really means to be an American and made the bold decision to showcase it in a commercial during the 48th SuperBowl this past Sunday, what could be more American than that? Now if you didn\u2019t see the ad it was a montage of many different Americans from different states, and more importantly from different backgrounds. The video was set to a collaboration between seven different girls singing \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d in seven different languages including English, Spanish, and Mandarin. It was a simple yet beautiful harmony that effectively drove Coke\u2019s message home that being a diverse nation makes us a great one. Unfortunately, some close-minded viewers disagreed with this statement. Their main reason? The song wasn\u2019t sung entirely in English. Furthermore, critics were opposed to the brief clip of what looks like a gay couple out skating with their daughter. What many would believe to be an enriching experience, opponents find disgusting and otherwise \u201cun-American\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy took to the popular social website Twitter where it grew to epic proportions. Hateful messages like \u201cWTF?\u201d @CocaCola has America the Beautiful being sung in different languages in a #SuperBowl commercial? We speak ENGLISH here, IDIOTS\u201d and \u201cEnglish or GTFO\u201d (Poniewozik) ran wild. What was intended to be an example of America\u2019s unity became a vent for social corruption and hateful behavior. As Americans, we are meant to embrace our differences and come together as one, not to discourage change and diversity like a deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p>What it means to be an American can be summed up in the last lyric from \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d: \u201cAnd crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea\u201d. This line clearly states the very essence of what it means to be an American; that skin color, religion and language do not define us, but rather our passion for freedom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/443Vy3I0gJs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Hausbeck &#8217;15 Staff Writer What does it mean to be an American? Does it mean wearing a ten gallon hat and riding horses under the big open sky or sitting down to a turkey dinner with the entire extended family? Or could it possibly mean something entirely different? The Coca-Cola Company had a pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}