Did anyone see this news article with Absolut vodka pulls ad showing California in Mexico?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080408/us_nm/mexico_absolut_dc

Is that picture what the illegals want Mexico to be? Will people boycott buying their vodka over this? Shouldn't it get people angry at them for even running such a ad in the first place?

Answer 1

I think we should give them California. I'd even negotiate Washington and Oregon.

Answer 2

Mexico is in California. They just got it backwards. Do you have any idea how much all this publicity would cost?I'm going to name my next kid Absolute.

Answer 3

what the fukc are you talking about? illegals are not trying to re attach 2 million sq.km of territory to mexico, this is the most idiotic comment on the issue ever...  i really like the americans I know, hard working, committed, quality people and the reality is mexico gave permission to some americans to settle in texas for instance, and then they decided they wanted to be independent and the north states supported the decision looking to expand south and westwards, so lets get over it and work together, it happened more than a century ago... i bet if you had lived at the time you would have supported the map the other way around, with the us having conquered what was once mexican territory, hipocritical ignorant

Answer 4

Yes, I did.

No, it's map of Mexico in 1846.

I seriously doubt it.

No, it's silly to get angry about an historical map printed in a liquor ad, people have more important things to get mad about.

Answer 5

I find it kind of funny that Absolute's ad agency is so incompetent. What did they think of, that it would p**s off American's?

All I know is somebody just lost their job.

Imagine the uproar, if they did an ad that said:

In an Absolute World

and showed a map of Europe with France and Poland under German boarders.

Answer 6

not sure check

Answer 7

Absolut's ad agency is Teran.  I found this this morning:

" Teran is based in Mexico City. The company’s website boasts a pretentious statement of philosophy advocating “disruption” as a “tool for change” and “agent of growth.” (Scroll your mouse over the little buttons in the upper-right margin.) The firm advocates “overturning assumptions and prejudices that get in the way of imagining new possibilities and visionary ideas that help create a larger share of the future.”

Translation: The company advocates overturning borders that get in the way of imagining new maps of North America that help Mexico create a larger share of the continent."

They don't care what American's think - their sales are all over the world and American's are not popular in most of the world.  

I am american and I don't find this offensive.  I find it kind of funny!

They were probably AIMING to make Americans mad!

Plus "illegals" is something you obviously need to educate yourself on - do you know how hard it is and how much money it takes to keep the "legal" status here?  Trust me, my husband is from Russia and we have spent lots of money and gone to lots of 5 hour appointments with the INS to keep his "legal" status.