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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it was already noted that America is actually a hijacking of the tune of the hymn Oh Mother Dear, Jerusalem.  So, like My Country Tis of Thee (stolen from God Save the King/Queen), The Battle Hymn of the Republic (John Brown's Body), and The National Anthem (a London social club's song), our national songs are all second hand (except for God Bless America, written by an immigrant).

And since we are talking about a hymn being sung in foreign languages, do you suppose Leahy thinks Silent Night and Oh Come All Ye Faithful were written in English?[/quote]

Who cares where songs originated or if Christmas songs are sung in other languages. The whole point for coke was to say this is our song but since people in our country don't want to learn English like all other immigrants have, we better start singing it in 5-10 languages.

Why don't we sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl in 5 languages too. How about drill sargents need to be trilingual, teachers speak lessons in various languages? Let's keep accommodating people that CHOOSE not to assimilate. Whether you all chime in with English is not the United States language or not, you can not deny it is the spoken language here for hundreds of years. Only tourist areas offered multiple language signs/paperwork. But these days there is a demand for translators in schools, paperwork to go home in 4 languages, tv channels in multiple languages but if we continue down a path of dependency of home country languages in the United States, our own country will continue to lose government taxes on accommodating this, we will divide even more as a nation and the melting pot will no longer be melting together very much. There needs to communication, compassion, comradery, patriotism and I don't see a country based on 95% English for hundreds of years, continue down that path if immigrants do not learn English and we turn into a country divided among multiple languages. Why is it bad to expect that of them? To learn English? The more we accommodate the less they have to learn and the more we pay.  I am all for diversity and learning other languages but if those immigrants in the Coke commercial can not sing a patriotic American song in the language our country has grown on, then that is the problem. I would have loved and appreciated it so much more to see immigrants learning the song and singing it together as one in English. But it sounds like I am in the minority. Oh well. [/quote]
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You may be in the minority here, but there are a lot of people outside the Liberal DCUM who agree with you. [/quote]

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