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Absolut Vodka's ad guaranteed to cause boycott
By M&C Bizarre Apr 5, 2008, 5:55 GMT
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It is pathetic that right wing hard line anti-Hispanic folk are getting all out of shape about an ad. Pathetic. If one has the balls to proudly put slave owners in ads, and other United States born individuals that had a hand in violent colonialism and imperialism, then you can tolerate an ad that is a mere amusing aside.
It also shows you how buried in baloney most people are in the States: a hugely important NATO summit has occured this week, their president is about to plunge this country into another war (whilst two are still raging!) and here they are flipping out over some stupid ad. We deserve to lose if these are our priorities.
Sadly, most 'Mexicans' either forgot or are totally ignorant of their history. Mexico went to war against the States and was soundly defeated. How they can make claims that the United States 'Stole' 'their' land is ridiculous. I do not agree with everything this country has done, but truly, if you do agree with EVERYTHING your native land has done, then your blind. Man is flawed and will do things for his own self interest. Why the United States should be held under some heavier burden is hypocritical and unrealistic. If people like Desi want to talk about Colonialism and Enslavement as though Mexico never had any part of it, then pick up a history book. Let us not forget how Mexico was settled by the imperialist spaniards, the French and oh, let's not forget about the thousands of innocents that were burned in the Mexican Inquisition.
You want to be devisive? Fine. This ad is anti-American. Period. And who do you think freed the slaves? It was the Whites! Nobody had ever freed slaves before.
I was once an Absolute girl ... not any longer.
Absolute will absolutely never touch these lips again.
I will raise a glass of Absolut to you as my countrymen and women reclaim our land by stealth! WTF? I drink Tequila not that pussy juice!!!!! But we're still coming to reclaim our lands, even if we are dirty and drunk.
The Swedes deserve all the fallout-for hiring a 'Latino' marketing company to pander to Mexican false pride. Just like the South in the Civil War, the Mexicans lost their war too, get over it.
Maybe this will spark a resurgence in Kentucky Bourbons and Scots Whisky as a natural reflex to this stupid ad.
Branding 101, don't anger your biggest market by pandering with an ill-advised ad in a Global economy.
It's a shame that Americans always find offense with someone or something and you never hear them say thank you enough for the freedoms they enjoy for soldiers dying in wars. People wake up and stop becoming dsistracted by political nonsense. When it's all said and done you are here to live and die and then we all will be judged by another standard much greater than any country can imagine. Stop telling others what to think, act, do, or say because it's not your place. The country is not owned by anyone because we are all here temporarily.
It would be very ironic if a lot of people switched from vodka to tequila!
What I don't understand is why Absolut would insult their top market in favor of a very small one . . .
And to 'Oh Yes, Mr. Americano', it is more likely that we invade Mexico and make all Mexicans United States citizens rather than ceding land to Mexico.
And I wouldn't call the most un-educated of Mexico coming to America to scrub our ddokie out of our toilets 'reclaiming your lands'. All you've reclaimed is the parking lots of 'Home Depot'.
w00t!
Nobody said anything in the ad or anywhere else about the reclaiming of land or mentioned anything about anti-Americanism. It was just an ad trying to tap into a very lucrative market by tugging at the heart and pride of many knowledgeable Latinos. Deny it or not it IS a lucrative market; we drink a LOT and not just tequila.
Articles like these will make it an issue by interpreting the ads for those of you who cannot think independently on your own. ABSOLUT is known for extreme, funky and racially diverse campaigns, look in any old copy of Rolling Stones. I feel embarrassed for true Americans who have to listen to those flaming this campaign.
As far as the type of you people who will stop drinking one of the best vodkas in the world (there is not just one,) you really are just a mindless bunch and definitely not the majority. You are willing to give up one of the few things that you may enjoy due to an advertisement? Really? Seems to me only the bigots and ignorant are getting upset about the ads and probably can care less about the finer things in life.
I know my words here will get buried in a bunch of one-sided hate-filled comments but I urge you to please think sensibly and with thought, hell first have a shot of your favorite vodka (no matter what brand that may be,) take a deep breath and then write a sensible argument. Cheers and Salud!!
Absolut,
Reference the “Mexican Ad”;
• It doesn't matter if it used to be Mexican territory. It’s been a collection of American states for well over a century now.
• Would Absolut have dared run a similar ad in Greece, depicting much of modern-day Turkey as still within Greece's borders? The Turks would sure love that.
• Or how about a campaign in Russia, showing the old USSR borders intact? I'm sure Baltic countries and nations like Georgia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan would just love that.
• How about a German campaign showing Germany's borders to include all of Hitler's Fortress Europe?
Unless you insult other nations equally, than you are clearly hostile towards ONLY the USA and it’s not funny. So go ahead, let's see you prove to us that 'it's only a vodka ad' and run equally insulting and divisive ads other nations as previously mentioned. Go ahead, double dog dare you.
Bottom line, in the age of the Internet, there's no way to 'hide' an ad campaign from ANY audience. If you running a campaign insulting an entire nation, they're going to find out about it.
I will never use Absolut products again, and I've encouraged friends and family to take the same stance. I hope Abosolut's sales plunge to nothing in the United States. Try to make up for it in Mexico.
Pissed off in the USA
me thinks sensible Mexican works for Absolut in some capacity...or the marketing company..
Bitch please, we all know Absolut does 'edgy' ads, this one is flat insulting.
It's so interesting to read comments from Americans, and by the way I'm one also, who get offended by these slights. Some of these same people then turn around and decry how Israel annexed lands captured in war. Land that were theirs for thousands of years and to which they had always hoped to return, unlike San Antonio or Los Angeles for Americans.
Agree with Diego, Aron you realy need to read a book wrote by a non american 'Gringo', as we the 'mexicans' know you all, that land doesn't belong to us,,, by now and forever.
It is just an advertising, don't take it so hard and go to get your book...
Just as a comment, the States has not future as a Union, the history has something to say... nothing is forever, so lets forget all this and go to drink some vodka..
Isaac the mexican.
Defenders of this ad campaign are ignoring a pretty blatant mistake on the advertiser's part. Ads aren't meant to alienate a huge part of the market. As said above there are dozens if not hundreds of similar scenarios that would have been very similar.
North and South Ireland and Great Britain.
Old Europe and control of the colonies (The French would've liked this one
Texas used to take up the lands that are now Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and pieces of other states. If an 'ideal' Texas ad were run it would probably offend all the states involved considering they don't usually like to be associated with Texas.
I also don't think Tibetan monks drink a lot of vodka, but they might start if a Tibet free from China ad was running.
The obvious similarities with these ads is they promote one culture/territory while shunning another. People generally don't like to be on the short end of the stick, especially when they have some direct control, in this case boycotting the product.
Completely disregarding the racist BS thats been flamed in the comments this was a terrible ad campaign, especially since its alienating its current market for a new one (research shows its 10x more expensive to get a new customer than keep an old one). If I were Absolut I would do damage control as soon and drastically as possible. If they don't I predict this will be used as a textbook example of poor marketing for years to come.
I love it! This ad is absolutely hilarious! Just the sort of thing to make a bunch of jingoistic erasorheads puke.
wow!!!!! I think that is hilarious just a history lesson of our best times here in america!! you know i still dont understand why we just didnt take the rest of Mexico, I mean why stop there? plus the map is alittle off on the bottom remember most of the americas to center right bottom portion was owned by the french which we bought from napolean himself what a lovely deal it was!!! and don't forget alot more owned by our slave trading spanish! Did the native indians even know that the land they were on were owned by mexico, spain and the french, I don't know!! But all of that is racist!!!I don't care if that is factual histroy Its racist how could you Absolite!! HOW? i am suing you absolute for every bottle of vodka you have and to future produce!!! I am so ashamed of my self its so terrible!! boo hoo hooo!! get over it survival of the fittest, thank you Darwin!!! now where is my shot of absolute!!!
?I'm spent?
Too bad even for the Mexicans who want to 'reclaim' territory which wasn't ever truly theirs to begin with, that they couldnt even retake the land if it was only controlled by the Rhode Island Militia.
Mexico Declared war on the United States, not the other way around. To make it worse, they should have known they stood no chance at all in a war with us. They were using some ancient British muskets and were up against far superior artillery and rifles. 90% of the US casualties from the war ended up from Yellow Fever, it truly was an imbalanced war that the idiotic newbie government of Mexico could have avoided completely by not declaring war on the United States in the first place.
Well, who drinks more vodka?
The US overwhelming drinks more vodka than Mehico so they didn't think that there would be any fallout did they?
In addition to boycotting their vodka I am also boycotting mexican beers and with summer coming up that'll be a bummer. I can do it though.
We won the war you lost the land and even my gardner and houscleaners are glad that this part of California is not ruled by mehico. They'd just add another 2000 miles of poverty to their country anyway.
Check out the anti-illegal alien apparel.
You're all missing the point. The appeal of this ad is not reminiscing about the past or arguing about which version of history is right. What makes this ad work in Mexico is that for many it represents a desirable future. “In a perfect world” is about a version of reality that you want, not one you had and lost. With 12 million illegal immigrants in the US and who knows how may legal immigrants their hearts still belonging to Mexico, I think this future is well on its way. With the inevitable amnesty and accompanying voting rights, I can see these states becoming a part of Mexico, whether the US border is moved or not. Spanish will become the first language in Alta California, not the second.
Desi, please get out of my country if you don't like it. I'll be glad to see you go. Maybe you can move to Mexico.
Are people burning Swedish and French flags in the street? Are people beheading people and video-taping it? No? Then maybe they aren't freaking out about it.
I see no reason to continue drinking anything from absolut or their new owner.
Would you be upset if the ad was absolut burqa and had every American female wrapped head-to-toe in a hefty bag? How about absolut wife and had every American female in the kitchen making a sandwich while barefoot and pregnant?
Methinks you would be upset with those.
how badly the Mexicans would like to go to war right now. Vodka or tequila, it wouldn't even be a rumble.
think the Mexicano Hispanos would appreciate a US Chevy ad singing ''See the USA in your Chevrolet.......'' with a map of the lower 48 to include The Baja (North and South), The state of Sonora and Chihuahua as the USA.
Me, I'd like to see it; in fact I wish it were a reality. At least the land would become useful and be worth something.
Incredible the ignorance and stupidity of 'United States people' (Yes, not American, America is a Continent.
All those States that you stole, cowardly will come back to Mexico, do not worry, you will not be sad you are used to loose all the wars where you go.
Unfortunately for you you have already at least 20 million of Mexicans recovering our territory and 20 million more will go to help them to put 'United States people' out if you try to do something stupid as usual.
YOU ARE A SHAME OF COUNTRY!!!!!
The map shown here did never exist with such perfectly-delimited borders.
Specially the south border of Mexico was pretty blury back then (Mexico, Nueva España back then included Guatemala, belize, etc). I'm also not too sure abouth Canadian-Us borders in the far west.
My 2cts.
always been the Rio Grande from El Paso and east. From El Paso just draw a line west across the north end of the Sea of Cortez to the Pacific coast. Not sure where Mexico ever had the idea they owned anything in this entire region. This isn't a Monopoly game you know. In addition, they would have to claim it in the name of Spain if they claimed it at all. At any rate, TOO LATE. Oh well.
It is kind of annoying for Americans to see a map that shows some part of their land given to another country. Well, i can understand that. But, how many Americans are aware of the fact that US Government is supporting some ethnic groups to have their own land and promising them lands which belong to other countries. If not, i suggest them to go and seek for the modified maps of 'Turkey' where their lands are shown as parts of Armenia or under possession of Kurds (not even a country!!). It is clear that what goes around comes back around!
The ad is divisive and will only hurt relations more than help. The old saying that two wrongs does not make a right so applies here!
Given the debate over immigration from Mexico to the USA, you wonder what Absolut was thinking. It's needless controversy to sell some vodka...and it's not even one of their better ads.
Mexico: Exporting poverty in an Absolut World!
Seriously, the US could destroy Mexico with one missile frigate. Why would a Mexican Ad agency wish to declare war against the US with an absurd and contra-factual ad such as this. Suicidal, amigo, suicidal!
Absolut Vodka = Asolute Bull = Absolutly No More US Sales !!!!!!!!
' What makes this ad work in Mexico is that for many it represents a desirable future. '
Stay in Mexico and build the future of your OWN COUNTRY instead of crossing over and dragging our health care and education down to Mexican standards.
Well, it is true the US provoked the war with the Mexicans and the Mexicans lost a lot of territory. But the sad truth is the Mexicans were a colonial power with imperial ambitions in North America as well. The land belonged to Native Americans and the Mexicans and their predecessors, the Spanish, had no more legitimate claim to the territory than the Americans. A tiresome argument from a beaten people who can't seem to get it right in their own country even after multiple revolutions.
Oh, and Michael, you're absolutely right. The US did take the 'Mexican' lands from the real owners, the Native Americans. Just like racist, Israeli Zionists have violently appropriated the lands of the Palestinians. Difference is, the disposessed are still alive and the 19th century ended a long time ago.
I just cancelled my vacation to Mexico. Take that where it hurts. The Mexicans no more owned what is now Mexico than did we own what is now the US.
As a past loyalist to the Absolut vodka brand, I was shocked at the advertisement that Absolut ran in Mexico. As an American who is extremely concerned about the flood of illegal immigration into the US from Mexico, this advertisement was short-sighted, ignorant and tasteless. My allegiance is to my country, I will no longer support this brand. I certainly hope that Absolut gained a great number of new customers in Mexico to offset those of us in the USA who have NO ISSUE in abandoning a brand having so little consideration as to a Nation's boundaries. There is no shortage of Vodka Brands on the retail shelves - Hey Absolut . . . THAT was a stupid Marketing move!
signed . . . Absolutly over it
From his broken English it appears that Augusto is most likely from Mexico, or perhaps from another Latin American country. The issue being highlighted on this website is with regard to a potential boycott of Absolut brand vodka. From what I can gather, Augusto would not support such a boycott – but he does seem obsessed with making some ridiculous point. I would like to clarify a couple items however that Augusto seems to have some ignorance about. First, “America” is not a continent, the continent is actually called “North America”. North America includes Canada, The United States of America, Mexico and the various Central American countries. Secondly, if you might notice, the only country that has “America” in its title is The United States of America. This is the reason that educated people the world over refer to people from the United States as “Americans”. If you are from Mexico are you American? NO, you are Mexican and you are FROM North America. If you are from Canada are you American? NO, you are Canadian and you are from North America. If you are from the United States of America are you “United States people”? NO, you are AMERICAN. Like it or not – if you travel in any educated country in the world this is the perspective that people have. As for referring to the USA as a “shame of a country”, WE in the USA certainly have our issues . . . but I defy you to name one country that does not have some problems. Augusto, I hope this little lesson can help you understand who Americans really are.
It's sad to see how so many of my fellow countrymen feel deeply offended by such a trivial advertisement. What right do we have to condemn such a thing? Is it the false sense of patriotism that we have just because we're 'liberating' the world? Is it because of these 'mongrel' Mexicans who didn't see our grand plan of Manifest Destiny and didn't roll out a red carpet and lied on the floor so their racial superiors would step all over them? Please everyone, tell me an ACTUAL reason as to why you really want to boycott Absolut instead of jumping on the bandwagon of unfounded hatred. It's a meaningless message in an advertisement that will never be shown here in the United States, so why bother about it?
I very much agree with Pissed off in the USA. He said it best.
ABSOLUT IS WRONG!
NOTE TO MEXICO AND SUPPORTERS: If you can't hang with what you got then how could you even BEGIN to manage a much largr portion of land? The Mexican people are fleeing a country that is so dangerously corrupt and full of poverty so how could you deal with what you say the US supposedly stole? Let's get this straight - The US won the war and bought the land fair and square so GET OVER IT!
No more will I even consider Absolut and I am letting everyone know to boycott as well. Let's hope Absolut wakes up and realizes their major mistake here.
In An Absolut world there will be no ILLEGAL MEXICANS in the UNITED STATES OF America.
In an Absolut world — State of california wont be broke because of all these Illegal Mexicans ….. leeching on welfare…..
In an absolut world …….US borders would be closed for this illegal mexicans
In An Absolut world we should be able to shoot these illegal mexicans..NOW THATS SOMETHING TO DRINK FOR
Absolut Vodka will be my new drink from now on!
Go for it, drink all you like . . . it is a free country . . . for at least as long as we can keep it away from the Mexicans!!
it doesn't matter who started the war (mexico), all that matters is who won the war (us).
Well you guys got it all wrong. The dumb mexicans need the vodka. Heck, it's the booze that led to their downfall at San Jacinto when their fearless leader fell asleep with the whore and Sam Houston kicked their butts while they recovered from hangovers. The mexicans crossing the borders are not their doctors or bankers, it's the low class idiots. We owe them nothing. But it kills me as I see them bring their stupid mentality and low class approach towards life. They move here wanting what we have and end up giving us what they had... Un-educated low class crappy life style. We deserve this. We keep letting them in. Letting them clean our toilets while they demand the life my grandfather and son died for. For those who say it's no big deal. No big thing that Absolut stirred up the anti American sentiment that seems to run rampant even here in America, Shame on them. And shame on the uneducated Americans that so freely denounce our great country. I don't see anyone fighting to get out. Drink up! Morons...
I AM AN AMERICAN WITH MEXICAN BACKROUND AND I WILL TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE THAT MEXICANS ARE STILL BUT HURT ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO
DEFEND THEIR LAND IN THAT FAITFUL WAR, NO MATTER HOW MANY MAPS THEY PRINT THIS BEAUTIFUL LAND WILL NEVER BE THEIRS, SO THE ONLY THING THEY CAN DO IS DREAM ABOUT RECLAIMING THIS TERRITORY. TO MR AMERICANO HEAR THIS, BRING IT, STEALTHY OR SCREAMING WERE READY, BECAUSE CHICANOS AND AMERICANS LIKE US WILL DEFEND THIS LAND TILL THE END, YOU'LL FIND THAT YOU HAVE SHEWED OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN SWALLOW, AND IF YOUR CONTRYMEN AND COUNTRYWOMEN FOLISHLY DECIDE TO TAKE ON OUR MILITARY, YOU'LL FIND YOURSELF WITH NO LAND TO BE PROUD OF, AND BE A REFUGEE IN SOUTH AMERICA. TO ABSOLUTE, YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING IS ALL ABOUT MAKING MONEY WITH PUBLISITY, I AM NOT A VODKA OR ALCAHOL DRINKER. I PREFER TO SAVE MY BRAIN CELLS AND FOCUS ON ENJOYING THIS AMERICAN LIFE.
We should ask the Aztecs how they feel about this... oh wait... we can't, because they were wiped out long ago by the Spanish to form modern Mexico. It sounds to me that the Mexicans, with all their talk about the US stealing _their_ land, still have an imperialist streak left in them from the Spaniards and aren't content unless they're trying to take over more land. We see this all over the world: a culture picks a moment in time and acts as though nothing before that ever happened.
yo diria que mas o menos en unos 100 an;os mas .... sin guerra sin violencia. mira guero mis antepasados cazaron en estas tierras, yo ahora cazo en estas tierras y los hijos de mis hijos seguiran cazando en estas tierras asi nomas .
el punto es que nunca han sido tuyas esa es la realidad.
necesitan saber un poco de historia solo hablan por hablar sin conocer verdaderamente lo q paso como en otras guerras q a tenido estados unidos o una invasion o ocupacion ustedes fueros dueños y señores no solo de la parte norte de mexico sino ustedes dominaron todo el pais por dos años cobrando impuestos y todo lo relacionado con una colonia hasta q ustedes decidieron liberar la paste sur del territorio q ahora se conoce como Mexico eso es lo q pasa en una ocupacion solo fuimos una colonia.
I sell Absinth and think this is a great way to sell my product.
I am making an ad campain with all of Hitlers pre war land intact and it will say, Absinth, Zeig Hail!!!
Screw Absolute and screw Vodka, only commies and women drink Vodka.
'I think this Vodka is the best, you cannot taste anything'
Vodka,: Tasteless, odorless, colorless, garbage that can be made from almost anything starchy and created to keep the russian troops warm and happy while rifeling through the sub zero Ukraine, look it up.
If you are going to drink hard liquor, drink something with flavor like good ol American Whiskey, some fine Scotch or hell even good Tequilla is better than that swill.
Absolute will be banned from all my pubs affective right now.
P.S. I love pink taco's.
This is the most stupid comments the I ever seen lets get the facts straight neither the mexicans or the mexican goverment publish the ad believe me the last thing we need is to listen to all your discrimination.Now you want let your poison out take it against absolut or the sweden's I am sure you will found some wrong with the them you always do 'Don't tell me is raining when you pissing on my neck '
First of all Hoopoe, what makes 'Palestinians' worthier recipients of land from the British Mandate than Jews? Furthermore, if you actually check facts you'll see that much of Israel was bought, but of course racists like you are never satisfied.
Poor ignorant bigots, you do not even know if your descendants were coming with one hand in the front and one on the back from another european country looking for food in the great America( the all continent and not only this country)and now you lazy ,drunk idiotic bastards are defending something for which you do not even know because you never touched a book or you were simply getting a flat D in social studies, and now a simple commercial ad brings your worst feelings and fears that someday you will return to the same place from your ancestors came,nowhere.
The land was native american before any of the european nations, so if anything tyhe mexicans(spaniards) stole it from them first.
Oh please grow up it is an advert for goodness sake. Is this all you yanks have to worry about in this world? Oh so someone offended your country boo hoo hoo.
What about the world credit crisis?
Zimbawe?
Tibet?
Dafur?
Global warming?
Iraq?
Afghanistan?
Your forever running boring election?
These are things to get upset and comment about not an advert about alcohol. It's called PERSPECTIVE!!!!!
Liz in the UK!
What about those upset americans chilling out for a while and getting a life?
What about mexicans understanding that the map was an ad and not an intention of going back 100 years in time? ah and getting a life too?
This is just an ad, not a declaration from the UN... or did we (the rest of the humanity) miss something?
By the way I'm mexican American but I did get a life long time ago.
If you were born in America, why are you a hyphenated American? Can't you just be an American?
Tammy, now you are insulting hillbillies. Hillbillies are American so I love them, Mexicans are not American, if they would stop leaching my tax dollars I wouldnt have a problem, lay off you commie, if you dont like it here move to Tiajuana, I am sure you will love it when you get kidnaped.
Screw you you anti American yenta.
Uncle Sam, girls.
I think it's pretty simple. Absolut vodka is being run by a bunch of dumbass foreigners who don't understand the deep seated hatred Americans have for the illegal Mexican immigrants (making us pretty much hate all mexicans-DON'T DENY IT! we despise the low class scums) They're trying to sell vodka to Mexico by saying 'Look what the world would be like if you hadn't been drunk and lost the war (that the mexicans started by the way) Don't the Mexicans understand how condescending this actually is? Or are they too drunk already? I, for one, will never drink Absolut vodka again. You don't sell to one group by insulting another.
It is just an add people. One cannot expect the Swedish company to do everything the 'American' way. They are their own company and therefore are entitled to do whatever they please. Whatever happened to the American believe....'freedom of expressionn'?
I love Absolut and therefore won't stop drinking it.
hahaha Go Absolut!!!
I will now enjoy Absolut more than ever before!
May I please ask who much cares about Vodka anyway? To me it is all the same junk, 80 proof. Now if someone could come up with say 90 proof vodka then they would have something. And also who cares about Mexico? I for one certainly don't. Let them pick our fruit and veggies!
well, I'm mexican and i want to give you the point of view that the mexicans have of the americans, it´s rude but you wanted it...all of you use drugs....we have problems with the narcs because you demand a lot of cocaine and others products, all of you hate mexicans, you are affraid of lost your jobs, but it is the same hate that you had with the indians, the black people, sovietic, the arabians , etc. because you love the war and kill people...and interfere with other countries because you want oportunities of make bloody money. you have a chimpanzee like president and he has his thumb in the trigger of all yours nuclear weapons, you kill childrens with bombs, your childrens kill their mates in your schools, forget about the Kyoto protocol.. you hate lost money giving food to the poor countries, all the gringos are ***** if one tv reporter ask you: say one country starting with the letter 'U' you don´t know(find it in youtube)and many things more, and thats the reality, many countries hate you, why do we want your states? we don´t need it, we are hardly fixing our problems, and if the mexicans in your country can make money that is because if a ****** gringo can do it any person in this world can do it too....we don´t need a war, we have many mexicans in your countri right now, minute man? come on they are a bunch of racist...they need to hate something to feel themselves alive....and now...you hate a company for a campaign made in other country, come on, you are more ***** with the time
wow, way to overreact america. lol i think its funny.
There are more than 300 million people in the USA, I would hardly call a blog site with less than 75 posts (many of which are not anti-Absolut) 'over reacting' by Americans. Perhaps it is you who is over reacting by reading way too much into these few commnents.
I find American's to be very much like pouting children. Look at what they did when France refused to fight in their oil war (AKA Iraq)... they changed the name of french fries to freedom fries. This whole vodka ad is the exact same thing. Grow up America and stop crying about everything.
Absolutamente rediculoso! I'll never buy this brand again. Oh yeah, Pacificos and Coronas out off the table too.
WoW, do you really think we blame this advertising on Mexico?!
NO!
America is the dream for some, not the oppressors. I guess dreaming about borders being moved does help in getting them in?
Absolut of Sweden was just sold for multi. Billions just a month ago to a out of country bidder, the other bidders were one of most powerful rich families in Sweden AND the government, who put up retirement funds, but…… lost out to a French firm.
This is just in-house business terrorists or corporate sabotage. Swedish politics I guess?
We love our Mexican friends and they just want what we in the Americas have. And that’s why a lot of Mexican/Spanish/others stayed here and even fought and became part of the new Americas.
But dreams of borders being moved, to accommodate your illegal entry? Meh?!
Wake up, that’s a dream and how would we be improved by Mexican control, when your own people are leaving to sneak in to the US and are working illegal sending money home?
Your county is over shadowed by corruption and blame it on the US instead of reasons why your government has failed you or induces you to want leave there?
Mexicans don’t like immigrants going north from south America because they might settle and/or also it’s a good time to rob them.
You really need to work in your own country to be happy or get changes you wish, and if you can’t even give your own people the basics? They will dream of living free in America.
You are some hateful people who are posting on here, what did the US do to you to make you so angry? It’s to bad your political beliefs will kill any sense reasoning with you.
Oh, and god/nature bless that we can talk about it open here without persecution.
I found it funny! But it will be even more funny if it was the map with the original tribes of the continent.
As for the American pride, this one is well deserved! Provoking to many people in this planet, time for a little slap in the face... Muah ah ah ah
All this comments show how down the toilet the US citizens have gone: just a bunch of fat, ignorant kids, who don't know crap about anything behind the horizon of their trailer park, and get angry because of a ad!!!! Get a life and speaking and thinking about wars. Your country is sinking and your are singing praise songs to the captain who did it. Get real, idiots.
Never mind that we:
Threw off our colonial oppressors
Decided the issue of slavery with 500,000 lives.
Built the trans-continental Railroad
Built the Panama Canal
Invented the electric light, the telephone, modern oil drilling and recovery, the airplane, mass produced automobiles, the crawler tractor, the nuclear submarine, modern day R&D, fought and won two world wars, invented the atomic bomb, broke the sound barrier, went to the moon, invented modern computers and software, the laptop, Windows, built the Internet, cured polio, developed AID's barriers, pioneered free trade, built the International Space Station, invented baseball, basketball, have the fairest criminal justice system on earth, let millions come here every year to stay, have trade partners that are the most prosperous on earth, and on top of that, secure half the world's freedom every day for them all.
So you'll excuse me if I do not throw up, and Absolute can draw all the maps it wants.
Perhaps they can draw one showing what native Americans had before the Spanish showed up and enslaved them all? By all means, get back to us on that.
and you are the most IMBECILE of all! Dear, dear! Go drink your 6 pack of budweiser in your trailer, cretin.
Who cares what you DID! It's what you are doing now that counts, idiot. And now you are the most crap nation of the planet. Period.
SP4, you did what? You invented the internet? WOW, you better the Gore.
The map is nowhere near historical. Canada didnt come into existence until 1867, Jamaica and Cuba werent independent, Belize didnt exist (it w as named the Mosquito Coast then) etc etc.
Even leaving that out, the US-Mexican border shown isnt the historical one until the Mexican-American War 1846-48. The map shows Mexico gobbling up additional parts that were never Mexican - most of Oregon, the southern half of Idaho etc.
Henrik
I want to live in a 3rd World country . My Mexican relatives left Mexico because they suck at governing . If Mexico controlled more territory it would just be a larger dump than it already is .
And we criticize Americans for being patriotic . Mexicans Russians Canadians Europeans are more blindly patriotic than Americans .
At least Americans have self criticism .
'In an Absolut World'... rather says it. Try drinking a whole bottle of flame water and you will also see the world different. It is not an insult to the USA. It is saying something else, entirely.
'Absolut' world sounds like a dream world rather than one of metal and tanks and war and politics. It is the world of the soggy dreams of a people who lost a war. And half their lands.
Maybe Absolut will run a campaign about the Absolut conquest of communism to make American's happy. Perhaps in an Absolut world the entire Americas would be one colour. Perhaps in an Absolut world people would live under the sea. That kind of romantic musing.
All these Americans giving up their Absolut for Stoli are drinkers of top shelf alcohol. I do not trust them to remember when they are at the bar.
Debbie,
No one wants to hear about your old worn out lips anyway. This Ad has so many people in an uproar, and I love it! People all over the world and in Mexico will be buying Absolut to offset your little boycott.
Hey American,
'Nobody had ever freed slaves before' Do us all a favor, and pick up the history books, or even the bible, yes, slaves were freed before the civil war, and by people other than 'whites.' Moron.
I guess I'm responding to some OLD comments! LOL
Hahahahahahahaha! What a bunch of freakin' morons. Of course Mexicans believe that used to Mexico. Just like the US used to belong to the English and to the Indians before that. God forbid we talk about what we did to them because then we might get people on the site who even deny that. It's a picture of an old map. People get a life.
Drink what you want and if you don't want Absolute, so what. Do I care, NO!! The people most offended by this add don't drink Vodka anyway. My guess is Jack and maybe Jim Beam or what ever's on sale at the piggly wiggly or Rite-Aid. On saturday and Sunday probably Moon-Shine.
Ernie
It's nice to see someone stick it to the 'pride' of the USA. I agree with other comments - don't Americans have something better to bitch about than a marketing ad?
Memories of Danish political cartoons - guess you all ain't that different after all, eh?
Augusto, Shame on you! To leave your country and illegally steal food from the mouths of our children by underbidding jobs in construction, or any line of business is sub human at best.
The Scum and trash left along the border as mexicans flee from thier own country is appalling! The diseases the mexican people bring over our borders and spread to our children, while signing up for welfare with stolen ID, making it so American citizens cannot apply cause the states are bankrupt is outrageous.
This map is not just about borders. Its about the fury and frustration of Millions of Americans who pay taxes and work and go to college just to lose thier jobs to an illegal that will work for less.
It is frustration and anger over the thefts and drugs and crimes committed by these same illegals that sneak into our borders.
No country can sport a perfect win on every war its fought. From france, to mexico, to britain to russia, no one wins them all. i will say though that If this continues, there will be retaliation. As of now the Government is SYMPATHETIC/TOLERANT to the plights of many of the mexican refugees that are trying to make a life here in America. But it will not continue if many of the Mexicans sneaking over abuse the helping hand offered them.
A thief is a thief, just like a rat is a rat. Eventually a pest will be dealt with. The government and the american people will not tolerate illegal immigrants for too much longer.
The Borders will close. The 'free lunch' ticket will be taken away.
Its sad because many of the mexican people who do come to America with true intentions to become a US AMERICAN and for a better life, but are stereotyped as illegals. And one cant tell what the paperwork says just by looking at the faces of these people. Its very hard to watch and very hard to deal with.
Absolut struck a tender cord when they made it clear as to where thier sypathies lay. With the intentions of the illegals.
Its a passive invasion to be sure and Americans all have mixed feelings on the issue of immigration. While it can be a good thing, it can also be abused.
Absolut basically is telling every mexican that they support this passive invasion while also telling U.S. Americans that their sympathies with Mexican illigal Immigration.
Absolut has lost any possible purchase from me.
I do not support Illegal Immigration, nor do I support any who think that biting the hand that feeds them, despite thier legal status gives them the right to reprimand us when the PEOPLE of the United States feel angered by those who would support thier passive invasion into this country.
I'll be sure to but Absolut the next time I'm getting Vodka. Most Americans are way too nationalistic. They react to this the way the Germans would have reacted if the Polish made a similar joke about Prussia. It's just an ad, not a political territorial claim.
while absolute may be a popular vodka due its HUGE ad budget, everyone who truly knows vodka agrees it's awful, low grade swill. as far as being offended by the ad, nope. it appeals to proud mexicans, i'm more offended that is there is a church and liquor store on every corner in every city in america. wake up america, your country was fleeced by your politians, not mexicans. america could use some culture anyway, i welcome the coming of the north american union as well as the new currency. 300 billionares run this planet, get used to it. and quit blaming the wrong people for everything wrong with it.
I think this ad is great. I hate the 'reconquista' garbage and illegal immigration of course, but this ad might finally draw people's attention to what is going on in the minds of many (though not all) of the Mexican immigrants to our country. The Mexican-American war was wrong. President Polk wanted to go to war because the Mexicans wouldn't sell us the territory. But that was more than 150 years ago. What are we supposed to do, give it back? The people living today haven't wronged any Mexicans living today--it was stuff our ancestors did to their ancestors.
I speak Spanish, having studied it in school and spending time in South America. I like Mexicans, personally. But I hate illegal immigration. It's not personal. It's destroying our country's identity and we need to stop it. Sure, stop drinking Absolut vodka if you want. Whatever. But more importantly, don't vote for a candidate who won't enforce immigration law. Even if you have to vote for some crazy third party instead.
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Memories of Danish political cartoons - guess you all ain't that different after all, eh?'
How many people have been murdered over this? Zero...
Absolute Finality. Not only will I not purchase Absolute, I'll make sure it's not in any driks I order out. The last thing we need is another polarizing issue dividing us. There are enough real problems to deal with without stocking the embers and false pride of our neighbors to the South.
The Swedes at Absolute got this one wrong. They forget how lucky they are to have the right to make Absolute. They are just across the pond from Russia. If history played just a little differently, they would all be drinking Stolichnaya.
The reps at Absolute claim they were only attempting to play on the pride of Mexicans. Nice try. Business Schools across the country, and probably the globe will be studying this case for years to come. It will be the manual for what not to do.
I'm very proud of my fellow Americans who are taking a stand on this issue. It's about time we stop being so apathetic and start using our voice, ie.purchasing power.
So, are we ready to talk about the Olypics and what is going in in Tibet? How about China buying our national debt. Soon they will own us. Our nation will be like an average American with a maxed out credit card and China will be our bank. Let's see Absolute tackle that one in an ad.
What a moronic move for a company to make just to try to sell some booze. You step all over some very sensitive feelings of one country (america, and it's 95% populace who is against mexicans), in order to rub yourself all over the wishes of another country (mexicans, who want to take what america has but still live in the mexican culture). Bad move. And yes, it's awful vodka anyway, so really gives a rats a$$?
I think it is ironic that the ad expresses what is already happening in America...with closed borders, the Southwest is becoming more of a destination for illegal immigrants, and they seem to be re-occupying a lot of what they used to own...very interesting.
On another note, few have mentioned that the 'White People' have taken away this great land from the Native Americans, which was a much greater loss to the Indians than the Mexican border was to the Mexicans...maybe this is where Absolut is going. I propose a new ad. One where we show the land being happily occupied by Indians, and the slogan saying, 'Absolut Takeover.' Or do we want to keep ignoring that topic?
Who cares about the ad (which is just a harmless bit of tongue in cheek humour anyway). What about the fact that Absolut tastes like crap?
It seems that all offended americans are going to stop drinking absolute vodka, what i think its that the same amount of people boicotting this well known vodka are going be the same in some other contries driking it, the purpose of this ad was to make people laugh and not cry and complain about it.
If that part belongs to USA now why are you bitching so much about it, besides there's a dude that doesn't even know how to write 'Mexico' (Mehico) there's another guy saying his going to stop drinking Mexican beer, what does this have to do with Mexicans and mexican beer?
You americans are very proud of being americans, that's good because Mexicans are even more proud to be Mexicans, we have a great country, amazing culture, family values, we are friendly, happy people, we are not under pills all the time, killing innocent people at schools, malls, and we are not in stupid wars.
Thanks!
the ad wont work in mexico because we only drink tequila and ride our donkeys
that's right, be an alcoholic. you're going to start making some CHANGES.
GET OVER IT ALREADY BABIES - ADS ARE MEANT TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK
HAVEN'T YOU SEEN PRIOR ABSOLUTE ADS? THIS AD IS SURELY MAKING PEOPLE THINK - AND I LOVE ABSOLUTE AND WOULD DRINK IT NO MATTER WHAT PEOPLE SAY OR COMMENT BECAUSE THEIR FEELINGS WERE HURT.
WELL UNLESS THE PRICE SKYROCKETS THEN I MAY DRINK SOME OTHER VODKA WITHOUT ADS THAT MAKE PEOPLE THINK CRITICALLY.
KEEP ON BEING CREATIVE ABSOLUTE VODKA AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT PEOPLE GETTING ALL UPSET BECAUSE THE LIBERATION IN PEOPLE WILL KEEP YOU ALIVE.
It's incredible how people take this ad to the heart. This ad was created by an advertising company which, correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't express the views of all Mexican people. The people responding negatively to this ad need to lighten up and stop taking advertisements literal. Oh, and a little less racism wouldn't be to much to ask.
Judging from the post dates, this whole thing blew over pretty quickly, but I, for one, won't forget and will keep on boycotting. I'm off to the store now to buy a bottle of Vodka and it won't be Absolut!
LOL, this is all BS... Everyone shut the hell up and buy whatever the hell you want, I'm sure absolut is not worried at all, otherwise the campaign wouldn't exist... They're all aware about this... but hey.. if the campaign is out... well that must mean something... so stop posting all this nonsense comments because i'm sure just a dumb boycott won't bankrupt absolut ever... so do whatever the hell you want and STOP WAISTING YOUR TIME!
I'm an American and I LOVE the ad!!!! I think it's absolt-ly brilliant. I don't understand why people are getting all bent out of shape about it because it's a history lesson. It makes me sick that the American history taught in schools is so terrible skewed and sterilzed to make it seem like the united states has been a perfect player in international foreign relations. I mean, turn on the tv, pump some gas, ask your neighbors.... it won't take more than a minute to know that sentiments like that couldn't be further from the truth!
Really who gives a shit...
It's history stupid... Most Americans and Mexicans have no
clue half the time and talk just to talk...
Read up on it look at bothsides of the story not just one.
It's just an add made to get attention from people
As stupid as it may or may not be the idea was to draw attention
IT WORKED!
GET OVER IT
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