In an Absolut World…
In a perfect world, our loved ones wouldn’t die leaving us terribly saddened and alone. But in an “Absolut World,” wonderful things can happen, including getting the U.S.-Mexico border straight once and for all. (This print ad was taken from the current issue of Quién magazine, in Mexico City.)
March 31, 2008 at 6:13 pm
that is so cool. love that ad!
March 31, 2008 at 8:22 pm
WOW - fantastic! Hope to see this ad in other publications
March 31, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Lisa and OCgirl, are you implying you’d actually want to see that piece of the US become part of Mexico ? I definitely wouldn’t (I’m both Mexican and American, and love both countries). Those lands have been part of the US for the last 150 years, and are now an integral part of the US.
April 1, 2008 at 4:05 am
I love this ad! Let us never forget that a large part of the U.S. was once Mexico. How then can we be immigrants on what was once our land?… Que Viva Mexico!
April 1, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Hola Laura, soy pablo de Buenos Aires, me gusto mucho tu blog y tiene un espiritu muy parecido al mio, quisiera pedirte la imagen de el restaurante mexicano contiguo al hospital cardiologoco! buenisimo.. si podes contame mas sobre ese lugar o si tenes una foto donde se vea el hospital.
Estamos en contacto, un saludo grande!!
April 2, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Is this a call for war?
April 2, 2008 at 11:58 pm
I’m disgusted by this ad and will never buy Abolsut and I discourage everyone I can from ever buying it.
April 3, 2008 at 2:17 am
come and get it.
April 3, 2008 at 2:32 am
Absolutely no more Absolut.
April 3, 2008 at 2:34 am
I was born and raised end educated in Mexico, this has got to be the biggest sour grapes ad ever. We lost tons of what was then OUR territory, because we were weak, stupid and corrupt, no one in Mexico cared about 2/3 of the old Nueva Espana until after they discovered gold in California and no one in Mexico cared about that territory untli the USA built it up with roads, cities, towns, services, industry in the early 20th century. Guess what, it’s the 21st century and Mexico is still weak, stupid and corrupt, socially, economically and govermentally. Instead of wroking to build a great society, instead of mexican society working as a team and building a 1st class country with the tons of human an natural resources we have, we covet jealously what we could have had, what the USA became and is, it because the Americans are smart and they have their checks and balances socially, politically and economically they built an empire out of 13 piece of dirt colonies, the Spaniards gave us an empire in term of land and as a society we pissed it away, the problem is that mexican never look at themselves as the problem, which we are, naturally we always look at some one else to blame for our own failings.
We suck as a culture, we suck as a society, we suck as a country, were a third rate wannabe leftist dictatorship aka a latina american democracy that can never get it’s act straight. I had the good fortune of marrying into an American family that embraced me regardless of my origins these social and political conservatives are some of the most generous and hard working people and some of the closest nit humans you will find, I am lucky to have left Mexico, and I will never return to Mexico, I will die for the USA and my sons will die for the USA because it has given me everything.
What has Mexico ever given me? Nada.
April 3, 2008 at 3:04 am
What a disgusting ad. Absolut will absolutely never see a dime of my money.
April 3, 2008 at 3:04 am
It is documented in the book “Two years before the Mast” about what California looked like along with the local inhabitants in 1830’s. I encourage folks to read the book.
The author returned to Ca. in 1860 and wrote about the changes. You want to know the truth then read the book.
The California 49′ers used that book as a guide when they went to look for gold as it was the only book about California at the time.
Texas won its independance without the help of the USA and later joined the union.
I will never consume volka again, probably make me smarter regardless.
If Mexico had controlled California this whole time, then it would not be anything special just like the rest of mexico today.
April 3, 2008 at 3:11 am
This is “absolute”ly disgusting.
I am an immigrant to the USA and love America.
Mexicans are envious and angry.
They need to solve their own problems and their weak, corrupt government.
I came to the USA from a socialist, unionist government that failed its people.
Mexico is no different.
I will boycott Absolute.
Absolute sucks.
I am tired of the “reconquista” and “blame America” mentality.
April 3, 2008 at 3:48 am
!Que verguenza, Absolut!
Shame on Absolut!
Let’s see a similar ad which depicts the American occupation of territory up to, and including Mexico City, back during the war our neighbors never want to forget.
Their PR Director will be hearing from this former customer, manana.
It’s not even shaped like the bottle, for Pedro’s sake!
April 3, 2008 at 4:26 am
Fabricio: As a Hispanic, I have never before seen such an excellent summation of what is wrong with the whole Reconquista movement. I have always said it…The best thing that Mexico gave me was NOTHING. It taught me to stand on my own two feet. Gracias…for making the point that although it is EASY to fall for the easy “Viva Mexico” crap, most people who say it are standing on the US side of the line….To Mexico, I repeat what John said…”Come and get it…”
April 3, 2008 at 4:31 am
I have never seen such a shameful ad. Distorting the United States of America geogrpahy to sell VODKA to Mexicans. Real SMART…. You just LOST TWO BOTTLES OF SALES for every ONE you sell in Mexico.
April 3, 2008 at 4:35 am
Mexico?
You cannot even travel safely there.
The whole Mexican country is run by rich elitist thugs that ship their poverty stricken poor to the USA as a cash crop.
For 300 years Mexico has been a dirt poor backwards country because of rotten Government and rotten people in Government living off the backs of the poor.
Mexico has huge oil reserves but much of the money for the oil disappears into private bank accounts. Drug cartels run much of the country.
No, we won’t ever be visiting that poverty stricken backwards country and we sure won’t be buying Absolut Vodak.
April 3, 2008 at 5:04 am
I will never understand immigrants that pine for the old country. There is a reason you left, or your relatives left in the first place. Creating some fantastic version of the place is non-sensical. Mexico is a corrupt oligarchy. If La Raz really loves Mexico they’d return and force change rather than pine over a war lost 150 years ago like children.
April 3, 2008 at 5:40 am
Shame on the author of this site. People like you are the reason some Americans think all Mexicans hate The United States. I’m proud my family left Mexico, apparently they are a lot smarter than some of the bunch. Now that they’re here, they are hard working, tax paying LEGAL citizens grateful to the country that afforded them more opportunity than Mexico ever could. I accept that people like you truly believe this radical junk, but I don’t have to respect it. Grow up and use your brain. Viva Estados Unidos
April 3, 2008 at 5:43 am
Perhaps the next “brilliant” ad from Absolut-Nonsense will be one showing the ENTIRE continent of North America belong to the original Native people. They can then use that to push alcohol to their modern day descendents.
Wouldn’t that be wonderful, an Absolut advertising campaign focused on selling more of their product to Native reserves throughout the U.S. and Canada.
What a responsible company … NOT!!!!
April 3, 2008 at 5:47 am
Wow! A Zimmerman note flashback! That is about THE BEST anti-American ad ever! W2G Absolut! Go ahead and pander to a twice-conquered people while alienating established American consumers…marketing genius! Imagine an ad reversal, showing a map of Texas that includes chihuahua, coahuila, nuevo leon, and tamaulipas? Wouldn’t that be a better message to the mexicans to be like us?
I’d bet a chalupa that Dora and Diego would get their feathers ruffled and make official statements, whine, march, boycot, etc. if you showed their territory becoming the 51st state. This ad just proves that the saps at Absolut Spirit Company are too gutless and weak to publish this campaign here in America…instead they push their product where the people have contributed nothing to the world in the past 500 years. I really wanted to see more fallout…
BTW, how many languages are the mexicans going to learn: first, they were Bronze Age Central American Indians; next, they were conquered by and learned the Spanish. (See! It’s their fault! Waaahh!); now they are abandoning their families, learning some English, and prostituting themselves as cheap laborers here? Finally, they will learn French (yeah! language #4!) to promote NAFTA and finalize their status as THE effeminate punching bag-of-a-people. The mexicans deserve their misery, allowing themselves to be bullied and dominated by the corrupt in their own country. Hint: the middle class–get it, then use it.
Along those lines, I would also like to throw this hypothetical what if out there: mexico did repossess those states? Would it really help them? It is so laughable, but this is the best that ‘la raza’ can think of to spread their failure? Instead of one big concentrated pile of crap down there, do they really success comes from spreading it into the USA, intensifying the third world stench here? I don’t think so…if it’s so successful, why leave?
Dear immigrants - If you already have, congratulations on assimilating to the American way of life–I applaud your success in OUR country. Otherwise, you are parasites sucking at Aunt Sam’s tit. Keep pressing ‘2′ while celebrating your corrupt culture in the privacy of your homes, thanks.
April 3, 2008 at 6:15 am
Hey, BonBon: The key words in your question are “that ONCE WAS”. Meaning: not anymore. So, since the land does not, thankfully, belong to shitty Mexico, thus, you all are, and will always be immigrants to our land. I have family that still lives in England (yes, my heritage, unlike yours, is not from the third-world, but a prosperous, English-speaking country). The US was founded by, and ONCE WAS English land. However, when my family comes here, they will be immigrants. I understand that you probably have no more than an eighth-grade education, but it surely is not too hard to grasp the concepts of past, present, and future. Something that exists only in the past is not applicable to the present or the future. Pretty elementary!
Anyway, I drink gin, to which vodka could never hope to compare. Besides, don’t you all drink that tequila rot? Or, as I suspect, do you dissipated Mexicans pretty much drink any trashy thing you can get, when you can get it?
April 3, 2008 at 7:39 am
A third of Mexicans have left for the US in the last 35 years. What does that say about Mexico? If it was good, people would not leave by the millions.
April 3, 2008 at 8:00 am
Please join the fight for OUR COUNTRY!!
NumbersUSA.com
BetterImmigration.com
STOP THE INVASION!!
April 3, 2008 at 9:10 am
Time to boycot completely all of the companies products. As for the idotic ramblings stating that Mexican once owned this land. That is simply not true. They may have had a few regions, but it was all shared with the Native American Indians who held most terroritory. Then the Spanish came along. They conquered your territories north and south. This is why you speak Spanish. Understand? How many of you are truly native? And how many of you are Spanish hybrids? Who have no claim at all to this territory?
I feel truly sad for Mexicans and South Americans in many nations. Corrupt politicians steal your wealth, your lands, your oil and you have no choice but to leave for better opportunities. America has long held its hand out to all immigrants. But why should we accept anymore those immigrants who profess to hate us? To want to turn our nation into another failed, socialist state like Mexico?
We’ve been patient. Much more patient than your own country who treats immigrants like garbage in your own country. Most people, we understand are simply trying to make a better life for themselves and family. But I ask you, why hate America for its success? Why not hate your own corrupt leaders? Why not make a revolution in your own nation and rebuild in the spirit of liberty, free markets and Rule of Law? Are you afraid to change your own country? You have a great model in Free Market Enterprise upon which to reference. Americans gladly help your country. We’ve sent billions to your government to help. What do they do with the money we send?
This ad is a disgrace. But even more disgraceful is the racism of La Raza. Who claim superiority and rights that they never had over other people. We defeated the Spanish. You did not. You lost. As a result you utilized their socialist system and created a disaster. That is the problem with most of South America. You took on the failed socialist economies of European nations like Spain.
Wake up. Your problems are not America’s fault. Your problems are your own. You alone can solve them by recognizing first you have a problem, 2nd by finally changing your economic system. Allowing governemt to nationalize and be in charge of resources like oil only encourages graft, theft, and bribes. You must seperate the resources from the politicians. Privatize all your businesess and revamp your economy, open it up to the world for investment so that it may modernize and come into the 21st century. If you did this, you would love your country and have good jobs to stay home. And all the senseless blame games and false covetness which goes against Christ and the Catholic Church would stop.
Wake up…. God hates those who envy, who covet, who blame others for their own problems in life.
April 3, 2008 at 9:32 am
Thansk to those Mexican-Americans who commented above in defense of America.
Americans truly have opened their hearts and land to immigrants for a long time. We’re not racist and we constantly give to the poor. I’ve seen billions go into Mexico thru our govt. and our charities. Yet Mexico remains a socialist nation. ITs oil should bring it massive amounts of riches for its people.
I hope it can change, modernize and the people of Mexico have a good life. It is far to easy to get caught up in the heat of the moment. Truth is we need each other as good neighbors. But anyone who is pushing for taking over territory of America, like La Raza does, who creates and incites hatred of Americans, will be met with equal fury and resistance by all Americans. Black, White, Brown, Red, Yellow.
Enough is enough. 20 million illegals now. You get free healthcare, free education, and you send billions back to Mexico. And for this you hate us? STop your complaining about America and take a good long look in the mirror and at your own corrupt government.
I don’t care about color. I don’t care about language. What I do care about is respect for our nation, rule of law, our traditions of liberty, free market and capitalism. Socialism is a failure. From France to Spain, Cuba to Venezuela, Russia to China. They all failed! The smart ones are all turning to Free Market in order to turn their economies around, except for Cuba, Venezuela and Mexico. Why? Why does Mexico continue to believe in a failed policy where political cronies control all the power?
Before you even attempt to take over parts of our nation that never belonged to a Mexican-Spanish government. Maybe you should take care of home first! And take care of your own people first! Instead of Americans having to come to your country and give medical, food, shelter and financial care to so many of your citizens. Solve your own problems! Grow up, mature, be adults. Childs blame others for their own bad choices in life. Adults take responsibility for their failures. They learn from mistakes and move on to succeed in life. Socialist economies and nationalized systems are failures due to corruption by the very leaders who say they will take care of the masses. Wake up! Seen the Matrix? Well? Stop taking the stupid blue pill. Take the red pill and fight for your own life and demand that your own government answer to you in Mexico, denationalize oil, open up markets for more foreign investment, stop all the Drug thugs and cartels, clean up the border towns of crime and your major cities. How about just get clean running water to all Mexicans? That would be a start!
If Mexico were to take over California. It would be like Hamas taking over Gaza. They’d destroy it within a few years with socialist doctrines and renationalization of all major resources and services. Wake up! Take the Red Pill and THINK for yourselves!
The Democrats and socialist all take the blue pill. They all want to be like machines in a matrix, unthinking, just give me my chalupa and I’ll be happy. Instead of fighting against the machine of mediocrity, you embrace the mediocre life and allow clueless, corrupt leaders to ruin your lives.
It is time Mexicans take back their own territory first and kick out the corrupt thieves that steal from you daily in Mexico. Once you’ve done this, then you can think about conquering other territories. First, reconquer Mexico!
April 3, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Over my dead body. Come take it bastards. Someone needs to be arrested for TREASON. This is a call to make war on the United States. The FBI knows who you are.
April 3, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Mexico can turn the southwest into what Mexico is…a third world, corruption infested, run by drug cartel dictators. Mexicans leave in droves to escape, yet Mexicans want the same conditions here that they fled? Nice country. Here’s an idea, fix Mexico first it’s a crap hole.
April 3, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Stupid tortilla pressers.
You think you’ll take over by over populating. 20 million or 200 million, it makes no difference when you’re largely uneducated, welfare monkeys.
April 3, 2008 at 2:30 pm
The ad designers must be drunk. Leave it to a company like Absolut to push this crap on witless third world Mexicans. Just what they need - more alcohol! Cheers.
April 3, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I just want my lawn cut every couple weeks in the Summer and the occasional drywall and paint job done correctly. If I get a sober beaner to do the work, it’s a bonus. Also stop paying for things at my 7-11 with 100 dollar bills because you’re too stupid to “entiende” the currency here.
April 3, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Yea, just think, all of that land could turn into the same toilet as Tijuana.
April 3, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Time to boycott Absolute and push to have them delisted from local vendors.
I will be contacting our local purveyors of spirits to let them know how offensive this “ad” is and hope to start a boycott.
I guess they thought they were being clever.
Hispandering at its finest.
April 3, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Wow, this post really brought the crazies out of the woodwork.
Take heart, white supremacists! I think what Absolut is saying is that, even if Mexico were to take back all her territory, English would still be the lingua franca of marketing and advertising. You won’t even have to “press 1″ for it.
April 3, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Looks like a wish for a declaration of war to me.
April 3, 2008 at 3:20 pm
The United States been screwing with South America destabilizing regimes, formenting rebellions, causing untold misery to millions of people. So those of them that can escape the conditions there, are now swamping the US - Delicious Irony
April 3, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Hey Frank,
FU Buddy. It is not “white supremacy” to love ones country. If someone called me one to my face I would knock their teeth out.
April 3, 2008 at 3:26 pm
“White supremacists”? Who said anything about race?
April 3, 2008 at 3:28 pm
It’s always a simple question when discussing “Reconquista” and La Raza (”the Race’).
Would you want the same group of people who run the Mexican government running the Southwest United States?
And if you answer yes, you’re a moron.
April 3, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I love to drink the tequila, eat tacos and not do anything every dia.
April 3, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Whoa!! Does someone need a hug? I agree with Frank, some crazies came out for this one. It’s called advertising people!! Just the way ads are tailored to pump “USA rocks” or any other ad for that matter, this is for a different demographic hence being published in Mexican magazine.
Now i know this is hard for some of you to understand but it’s an AD! Not a call for revolution, not kill the “white man” campaign, not any of those things. It was simply taking history and placing it in a different text for an AD!
There is another ad in which “In an absolute world men would be pregnant.” Oh my god! The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!! Lets protest against the pro genetic-tampering, anti-God, absolute vodka demons!!!!!
April 3, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Frank - You and others that do favor open borders (ie. uncontrolled migration) reflexively call your opponents bad names. Painting with a broad white supremacy brush, no? My wife in I met and married in Mexico City - Sure this is all about racism?
y por parte de los ilegales aca … Gracias por indicarnos (los mexicanos sin papeles del eeu) que ustedes de absolut nos apoyan en absoluto en esta lucha contra los gringos ladrones.
Cheers!
April 3, 2008 at 3:43 pm
A boycott of Absolut would be effective for this hideous reconquista/ la raza ad campaign!! They are advocating for the overthrow of a sovereign country and as an American I will not stand for that. I suggest that everybody and their families should never drink Absolut again and call for a boycott of any of their products!!
April 3, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Like I said in a previous post, it is beliefs like the author’s that create a negative, generalized idea of all Mexicans. People like you do a great disservice to your /my culture and ethnicity, which is apparently dear to you. Just take a gander at all the morons who refer to all Mexicans as drunks, beaners and a variety of other enlightened terminology. I am ashamed of the United States’ residents on this site who truly believe these things. It is one thing to be weary of Mexicans because you don’t know them or you see the bad apples abusing the system; however, it’s ignorant and bigoted to hate a culture just because you perceive that all abuse the system. It’s somewhat like the English who think of the United States as a bunch of gun-totin’ stupid rednecks who like being racist for fun, yeee haaa! Pretty ridiculous, right?
“Neither Hispanic Nor White”:
The United States, like every other country, looks out for its best interests. It is not always right, but it is no different than any other country in that respect. Further, destabilizing regimes sounds like a good thing. Have you even been to Mexico or are you just comfy over there in Europe, full of information provided to you by your BBC? How ridiculous you are.
April 3, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Who said anything about race? Maybe it was LA RAZA!
News for the historically ignorant, Mexico never controlled many of the areas represented on this idiotic ad.
And the open borders crowd will refrain ‘oh silly gringo it’s just a joke, it’s just advertising’. Well I wonder how Mexicans would like it if Absolut had an ad about illegals in the USA: “Absolut criminals”.
April 3, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I think I would have less issue with this creative if it were a Mexican company. Sadly, it’s an American company.
Who apparently have no pride in their nation. I suggest they move to Mexico.
April 3, 2008 at 4:17 pm
They might have pride in their nation, Stacy - it’s just that their nation is Sweden, not the US.
April 3, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Absolut is owned by the govt of sweden or or some other cold country up north by russia. It is not an american company.
April 3, 2008 at 4:34 pm
The ad is disgusting. But for the commenters here, please remember that Absolut is responsible for the ad, not the Mexican people. I know many of them, they are primarily decent, honest, hard working people. Yes, there are some idiots who continually harp about how Texas and the Southwest was “stolen” from Mexico, (who stole it from Spain, who stole it from the Native Americans, who stole it from ???). Most of those idiots are in the United States, not Mexico.
Can we direct the anger at the ad at those who are responsible, Aboslut???
April 3, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Just genius.
A huge amount of people want to escape Mexico, but also want to bring that same dunghole 3rd World culture up here with them.
Never have a people been so proud for so little reason that the Mexican.
Yeah, that’s really brillant.
April 3, 2008 at 4:45 pm
I’m a little confused…if all the other language is in spanish, why would “In an Absolut world” be in English?
That doesn’t make much sense…
April 3, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I smell a hoax. Absolut traditionally uses a bottle shaped design element somewhere in their ads, this thing just reeks of photoshop wankery. Let’s not get all worked up over someone’s idea of a “joke”.
April 3, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Well said, NoMoreAbsolut.
Most Mexicans who have come north are very industrious and make a substantial contribution to the U.S. economy.
That said, I don’t mind ridiculing any Mexican, productive and decent or not, who has truck with the Aztlan myth.
And it is certainly fair game to point out that Mexico is such a disaster that anyone who would want to expand it north of the Rio Bravo just isn’t thinking.
April 3, 2008 at 5:05 pm
What a dumb ad. I will never, ever buy Absolut again.
April 3, 2008 at 5:14 pm
To whom it may concern:
That’s a cute map, considering Mexico couldn’t conquer a bag of fluffy kittens.
Sincerely,
The Indians
April 3, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Yes I’m sure a boycott by the dirt poor, crazy American peasantry will have a great impact on a Swedish Vodka company owned by a French Multi National corporation. Go for it folks!
April 3, 2008 at 6:07 pm
The ad plays into the widely-accepted idea that many Mexicans are Absolutely stuck in the past. How true!
April 3, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Absolut is history.
April 3, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Well Martinez and Absolut just offended not only every American but every Hispanic that is NOT of Mexican origin and doesn’t believe in the mythical land of Reconquista Aztlan. I know many educated Mexicans like Fabrizio and others who have commented on this site and, like them, can see the false pride and arrogance that has been indoctrinated into the uneducated masses of illegal immigrants from Mexico in the United States. All done to keep them on this side of the border as cash cows to the wealthy oligarchy in Mexico….ask yourself what has Mexico done for its underclass? ABSOLUT is going to be absolutely sorry it insulted Americans and many immigrants alike with this stupid, stupid, tasteless ad. How much influence did the racist, ethno-supremacist National Council of La RAZA have on this?
April 3, 2008 at 6:15 pm
DEAR FRANK,
I am not crazy or a supremacist, but I do have an opinion. I will ask you yours:
You are an American that accepts a hypothetical map of mexico annexing some southwestern states? It is just an image making a sell, right? What image would be offensive to you as an American? Do you care about your country? To each his own…
Patriotism is measured nowadays, Frank. You just flunked.
Hypothetically, you just allowed millions of Americans to be “displaced” by a simple ad that promotes the takeover of the western U.S. I don’t think this ad is a gee-whiz history lesson, a review of once was. If it were to happen (The mexican military and their grenade…funny!), do you think it would be peaceful? I sure don’t… How many Americans do you think would stay and submit to a foreign government? How many of my countrymen (not yours, apparently) would sell everything, voluntarily relocate from California, and start over in say, Illinois? Maybe you have family or friends that live in that region; would you accept taking them in while they rebuild their lives, or would they happily stay give the finger to the rest of America?
FYI, I happen to take offense at this multi-culti anti-USA propaganda trotted out by absolut. I am thankful that I have the freedom to call them and you, Frank, un-American and treasonous. It does fit their alcoholic beverage global marketing model, though: selling a product that inhibits positive judgment to a mostly uneducated, corrupt populace that fiestas every time a taco is rolled. That should earn absolut plenty of pesos…as they say, there is a sucker born every minute. In fact, I want the mexicans to increase drunken procreation: sad to say, but the more brain damaged youth south of the border, the better. Dumb them down now, as America will have an increased need of cheap 3rd world labor in the future. Drink up, Frank!
I do not have any respect for people who make bad choices in life…it just so happens that there are millions of such persons south of the USA. If they do not respect our immigration laws, why should I respect them? The illegals’ poor choice/selfish delusion of “jump the border and everything’s cool” fails the respectability test. It does rate, however, as unethical judgment below the retarded level…just the type of people you want living in your neighborhood, making decisions in your community… right Frank?
I will give the mexican people credit for trying to improve their quality of life. Please, come on over! Just do it legally. Rumor has it you can get a passport, visa, and apply for U.S. citizenship. Live here, assimilate, contribute to our society, and practice the freedoms you will earn. Heck, keep on sending your hard-earned dollars home so more of your family can start their own journey here to the U.S. Illegals not taking the time to have authentic documentation BEFORE coming here and making an illegal “life” here is just pure laziness. Pass it on: save up for the passport fee before coming over. If it is cost prohibitive, ask yourself and your representation why you can’t afford it. Maaaybe it is it the crappy Mexican economy—make them answer; don’t blame us. America can help, just don’t make us deal with your problems.
In conclusion, Frank: your passive mindset sucks. Please leave my country, move to mexico and see if the lingua franca works there as well as it does here in America.
April 3, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Contact Absolut and let them know what you think about this stupid, insulting, offensive ad…..and how Absolut won’t be purchased ….
Jeffrey Moran
Director of Public Relations and Events
The Absolut Spirits Company, Inc.
1370 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
USA
Phone, direct: +1 212 641 87 20
E-mail: jeffrey.moran@absolut.com
April 3, 2008 at 6:16 pm
DEAR NEITHER HISPANIC OR WHITE,
Yes, the U.S. has been destabilizing regimes, fomenting rebellion, and causing untold misery in the Americas…to socialists and communists. We call it the Monroe Doctrine. Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_doctrine.
Delicious fact.
Now, please prove your theory of the USA destabilizing TRUE democracies in Central and South America. You have 15 minutes. You may begin…now.
April 3, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Messicans suck, period. Rack Frank by the way.
April 3, 2008 at 6:37 pm
LOL U BUTTTTBURT
April 3, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Clearly Anti-American. Only a bigot would approve of this ad.
Will Absolut do one that shows Japan, Germany, the UK, France, Iraq and all the other nations we saved; as an “absolut” America? I can’t wait for that one. Won’t hold my breath.
April 3, 2008 at 6:40 pm
it was the oter guy in the band, the dummer. VIVA LA FRANCE
April 3, 2008 at 6:44 pm
YAAAAAAAAAAAAH
April 3, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Lighten up people. This ‘map’ is a creation of a marketing company to ‘draw in viewers to the ad and bring the product (Absolut) into the publics eye! It worked.
Not being a drinker, they won’t care what I think about it they don’t get my money anyway.
Insofar as the geopolitical angle - there is no moral high ground here. NO ONE can claim this was ours, this was theirs, it’s a piece of land for goodness sake! There was ALWAYS someone here before us, including the Europeans who ‘created’ America, north, south, and central.
The first principle of peace is that you can’t OWN a part of the earth - you can live on it, you can fight over it, you can fence it in and use it as you wish, but when you die it doesn’t cease to exists, and no one will ever find you name tag on it.
April 3, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I have. It doesn’t. They all speak some sorta weird, jibberishy moon-man language down here. Please advise.
April 3, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I OWN THE EARTH
April 3, 2008 at 6:57 pm
John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln both voted against Polk’s war. Grant, who did his duty in the war thought it “one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.” Having said that, General and President Paredes was an idiot, (Mexiico was paid $15,000.000.00, less than half what it had been offered before the war, for the ceded territories) and Alta California and Nueva Mexico’s total Mexican population prior to the war was something around 8,000 families, most of whom opted to stay even under a new gov’t.
It’s yet again a huge disappointment to see how easy it is to manipulate people’s emotions on either side of the US/Mexico border.
An old Gringo who presumably died in Mexico once wrote, “…In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.”
April 3, 2008 at 7:02 pm
WHEN MEXICO MAKE YOU MAD WHY IT MAKE YOUR TINY BRANE SO FULL OF BUTTJURT AND BROKEN THINKY PARTS REPUBLICNAIESES POEPLES
April 3, 2008 at 7:13 pm
If you were to ask the residents of those parts which country they’d want to be a part of, I wonder which they’d choose.
a) One that has plenty of natural resources, but has a government that is corrupt beyond words with it and the media basically being run by a single socialist party, therefore having an economy that isn’t anywhere near what it could be?
b) Mexico?
Of course, seeing that 10% of Mexicans have fled their country in the past decade….
April 3, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Just a question here. Isn’t the entire territory of Mexico, including its capital city, just land that was stolen by conquistadors from Mayas, Aztecs and other native societies. If Latino separatists want California “back”, how about a little consistency and give back Yucatan for an independent Mayan state?
April 3, 2008 at 7:50 pm
As a few have correctly pointed out, my ancestors lived here long before the spanish (lower case on purpose) invaded.
Bon Bon, would you support my ancestorial rights to lands in that map/ad?
To “hispanics”, “latinos”, or whatever name you like - your people murderd mine for land, gold, and power, and now you’re complaining about Americans? Get over it.
J
April 3, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Absolut assholes!
No, not as obcene as your “map”.
Richard
April 3, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Newsflash Laura:
Mexicans are not even Latin by ancestry. They are descendents of Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas, who were invaded, occupied, and Catholicized by the Spanish Conquistadors, who also took the western part of the American continent, including California, away from the native people. (”Indians”
At the end of the Mexican-American War, (1846–184
Mexico ceded 525,000 square miles to the United States in exchange for $15 million; equivalent to $313 million in today’s dollars.
The “you stole our land” mantra is unmitigated bullshit. Get your history straight before you try to appeal to the “La Raza” anarchists and illegal aliens.
In a perfect world, US Code Title 8 would be enforced, our borders would be secured and montiored properly, and all of the illegals in this country would be deported.
April 3, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Not Latin by ancestry but Aztecs, Mayans and Incas gives em all the more license to occupy the southern united states which is currently mostly occupied by a primitive unevolved specie of lesser apes (the redneck)
April 3, 2008 at 9:56 pm
ello there:
No it doesn’t. It wasn’t theirs to begin with.
As for “primitive unevolved species”, have you gotten a gander of what’s been crossing the southern border?
April 3, 2008 at 10:04 pm
It doesn’t mean anything because we’ll all be one happy family in the North American Union while we go to the mall and spend our Ameros
April 3, 2008 at 10:20 pm
My Dad was and Ad man on Madison ave for 40 years. He’s dead now but I’ll bet he’s rolling over laughing in his grave at this one!
What a bunch of dumb asses!!
April 3, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I will never buy Absolut again.
April 3, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Amero -
Sorry to say, you may be right. Not because of some evil conspiracy, but because our politicians are so brain-dead that they will stumble, bumble, and fumble us into it. 20 years from now, we’ll have some Chertoff-like figure intoning that we “must bow to reality” and accept that there is no longer any meaningful border between us and our neighbors.
What would be interesting to see though (and I’m too old - I won’t be around) is how states like California which will within 30 years be majority Hispanic actually function. Will it be like the USA, only Spanish speaking, or will the “whole package” come with it, i.e. poverty, lower levels of literacy, corruption, and one party rule? If CA goes all the way, don’t be surprised to see millions of impoverished Californians of Mexican ethnicity fleeing to places like Idaho, where things function more or less the way they used to in what was once the USA.
April 3, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Wow!!! I have never seen so many reactions on a post. Felicidades Laura!
This topic is always misinterpreted though. Everyone who is stupid enough to argue on this topic doesn’t understand that there is a new trend out there called cosmopolitanism, which has made us hybrid in between cultures. this is not a topic of Mexico against the United states, this is a topic about breaking down “false identities” of nationalism, and focusing on the reasoning behind this messages. you can continue to insult one country or the other, at the end our youth continues to have hybridity as a way of life. Listening to music in English, but dancing merengue to it, loving hamburgers with jalapeños, drinking Absolut Mango in Can Cun paying with dollars.
come on people grow up and face reality! Nationalism is not going to take us anywhere, open your eyes!
It is fun to read this debate though! Have a nice day Patrioteros!
April 3, 2008 at 10:39 pm
I was just thinking, If Mexico gets back Texas, Arizona and California, that means that George W. Bush, John McCain and even Schwarzenegger would be Mexicans…being a proud Mexican I must say we are going to pass on this one…by all means KEEP THEM!
April 3, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Bad move. This is going to be “absolute”ly a disaster for their marketing…….. err propaganda. This ad disgust me.
April 3, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Hey Luis Avila, Shove Cosmopolitanism up yer ass!!!
April 3, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Now I know to never spend another penny on any Absolut product. Mexicans NEVER made up a significant portion of any ‘US occupied’ territories until the late 1960’s, and have no legitimate claim to any portion of the United states.
The Republic of Texas kicked you out for a reason.
3rd world immigrants make 3rd world countries. Please stay in your shit hole if you’re so proud of it.
April 3, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I think this is great, Mexico should take over this whole territory, Please oh please come up thru Texas again and see what happens
Their are no Black-America, Asian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, just American
and the others are criminals that sneek over the border with the approval of Congress and Bush and should be shot on site.
John Wilson
Texas Militia
April 3, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I’m sure the Mexicans wouldn’t mind the Aztec’s, the Mayans and the Incas coming in and taking what once belonged to them back.
Like others have said, I’ll never buy Absolut ever again.
April 3, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Jeffrey Moran
Director of Public Relations and Events
The Absolut Spirits Company, Inc.
1370 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
USA
Phone, direct: +1 212 641 87 20
E-mail: jeffrey.moran@absolut.com
April 3, 2008 at 11:48 pm
It’s JUST AN AD!!!!!!!! It’s about history, and it was only published in Mexico. They don’t wanna get it nor invade… Those states were originally part of mexican territory before 1846. Look:
The most important consequence of the war for the United States was the Mexican Cession, in which the Mexican territories of Alta California and Santa Fé de Nuevo México were ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In Mexico, the enormous loss of territory following the war encouraged its government to enact policies to colonize its northern territories as a hedge against further losses.
In an Absolut world THERE ARE NO WARS, therefore THIS HAPPENS. That’s the explanation.
Remember that advertising it´s a fantastic and imaginary world, where everything can happen. This is just an ad, very good by the way.
April 3, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Ain’t happening boys and girls…
April 4, 2008 at 12:05 am
That map you show there covers land that “I” own. You better bring a bunch of friends and pack a lunch, it’s going to be a long day for you.
Don’t forget a shovel so you can bury your dead , afterwards you can pour some concrete for us.
Dickheads.
I’ll never buy another Absolut product ever.
April 4, 2008 at 12:06 am
“In an Absolut world THERE ARE NO WARS, therefore THIS HAPPENS. That’s the explanation.”
Are you on crack?
This ad is pandering to a people who seek to invade and overtake the Southwestern United States. (NOT Northwestern Mexico, you La Raza morons.)
April 4, 2008 at 12:21 am
Como on! take it easy! it´s just an ad!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 4, 2008 at 12:21 am
Absolut Rubbish.
Deport the invading hoards, take your vodka and shove it.
April 4, 2008 at 12:49 am
I’ll never drink Absoult again!
April 4, 2008 at 12:50 am
I’ll never drink Absoult again…ever.
April 4, 2008 at 1:03 am
Louis Avila,
Phuque 0ff genius. You can now begin to understand that this is not about “breaking down barriers” and becoming “cosmopolitan”. It’s about Law and Order, advantage over Chaos. Rules that a society needs in order to function.
Now go back to smoking dope and suqueing k0ck. No rules necessary for you, I see. One day, when I become committed to abandoning family, friends, and neighbors, and begin living a degenerate lifestyle that wishes for the end of “government intervention” in our personal lives, but demands “government control of industry” I’ll have a wonderful conversation with you where you will be el heffe. Until then, keep shovin that sausage in ur rectum. It stretches to guevere proportions after a while.
Regards,
Yo Daddy
P>S> Please call you r mother, she’s worried about you.
April 4, 2008 at 1:05 am
and by the way, for the “IT’S JUST AN ADD” crowd. Call your office, we’re not buying it. ever again.
April 4, 2008 at 1:06 am
and by the way, for the “IT’S JUST AN ADD” crowd. Call your office, we’re not buying it. ever again.
April 4, 2008 at 1:40 am
That is probably the most stupid add I have ever seen!! If you think that add is ¨cool¨ than you are an idiot. I dont drink that crap vodka anyways, but if I did I would never again..
April 4, 2008 at 2:16 am
Some cultures need to learn there place in the greater order of society. Mexico = cheap labor. As a culture, they really haven’t contributed anything above Taco Bell. Seriously, outside of labor, what good is that hell hole? All of Mexico should be ashamed of themselves over the past 50 years. Quit running form your problems and fix your country….or, keep mowing my lawn.
April 4, 2008 at 2:20 am
So too all the “just an add people”…would it be cool for Absolut to run an add showing a beaner mowing my lawn while I sit in a lawn chair, sipping delicious vodka? Absolut Spic.
April 4, 2008 at 2:38 am
Hey Crawfish - trick question, Mexicans can’t read.
April 4, 2008 at 2:40 am
Mexico sucks. That’s why they all want to come to the USA
April 4, 2008 at 2:41 am
I’m not a vodka drinker but I think I’ll start buying lots of GREY GOOSE or STOLI from now on just to help Absolut’s competition. This has got to be the dumbest marketing move ever. The name Absolut is now synomous with Reconquista. Way to go Absolut! You are Absolut Idiots!
April 4, 2008 at 2:48 am
Hey Luis Avila - I wonder how the Guatemalen illegal aliens in Mexico feel about “false nationalism” when they are beaten with sticks and raped and murdered for being in Mexico illegally. Yeah Mexico has a real nice attitude about the “Cosmopolitanism”. It’s another word for “invasion” and we ain’t buying it and we welcome you invaders to just TRY and take any of this country back and you will find out why this country is so much batter than your shithole of a country called Mexico. There’s a reason it is below the United States. Crap rolls down hill.
April 4, 2008 at 3:11 am
“TRY and take any of this country back”
There’s a reason we have a 2nd Amendment to our Constitution. We have the right to protect ourselves from not only the encroaching onslaught of “ILLEGAL ALIENS” but also from a government that wittingly allows the illegal invasion of our Nation.
America is very close to Civil War if this shit continues.
April 4, 2008 at 3:15 am
I’m struck by how similar the Aztlan movement is to a movement of one A. Hitler at the end of the Weimar Republic. Will the new Mexican Lebensraum be organizing roundups of whites, blacks, and Asians and deporting them to work camps as well? “Arbeit Macht Frei!” Remember? Will other Latinos be included into your Volk, or just the ones who are brown enough?
April 4, 2008 at 4:22 am
What a beautiful poster. Good ol’ times.
April 4, 2008 at 5:02 am
Yep. Good times. Bring it!
April 4, 2008 at 6:57 am
fucking wetbacks if this map was true and half the west coast was mexico, then that just means that your pile of crime and drug infested shit hole of a country would be bigger and all your beaner people would still beg to come hop the fence to mow my lawn
April 4, 2008 at 9:05 am
You obviously can’t stand the country you have now. You think by increasing the size of your shithole will make it better? You’ll still cross the boarder looking to have what Americans have. Fix your own country and leave our’s alone, you welfare sucking, job stealing, law breaking low lifes.
April 4, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I agree with some folks- We made our coutry great, Mexico is a total polluted swamp, and they’re too lazy to fix their country and want to try to steal ours by saying they’re taking back what we stole (never mind HISTORY, and the fact that we kicked their ASSES, and won’t hesitate to do it again, and Mexico SURRENDERED that territory to us! HA HAHAHAHAH!!! Stupid idiots!)
If they had any respect, they’d fix their own houses before trying to steal someone else’s- but they’re NOT respectable! The only ones worth a damn are the ones who came here LEGALLY, and continue to try to better themselves.
Regarding the second amendment, I agree with Tusk. We’re pretty proud of our little collection, and I think I’m gonna go shopping today to add to it!
I just read an article about how well Absolut made out in the USA last year- one of the #1 Vodkas is Absolut, here. NOT ANYMORE!!!!
Furthermore, how hysterical is this ad, anyway? People in Mexico are so poor- they couldn’t even afford to buy it if they wanted to! You know how many pesos it would take to buy a bottle of Absolut??? Too funny.
April 4, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Customer Service Relations for Absolut
jennifer.mcdonald@absolut.com
April 4, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Maybe it is just an ad, in Mexico, by a Swedish vodka company. It reflects all this Aztlan BS “La Raza” propounds, and it Absolut(ely) GUARANTEES I’ll never buy their product. I have only one other word for this. Stolichnaya!
April 4, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I will never buy Absolut again, and I will advise everyone that I know to do the same.
This ad is nothing more than a call for war, to change territorial and cultural lines that have been fixed in place for 160 years.
My wife is from Mexico, and she understands well that Mexico’s economic, political and moral culture are HORRID. Yes, the US has problems, but Mexico has many, many more - because of the decisions of Mexicans. She is a proud US citizen and won’t go back there for any reason except to visit family.
By the way, the idiots at Absolute should have their heads examined. How much vodka will they sell in tequila-drinking Mexico, vs. what they’ll lose in the US with this ad? Sell your vodka based on how good it is, not on messing into political and cultural issues that are none of your Swedish business. Morons…I guess that they’ve been consuming too much of their own product.
Absolut can absolutely go to Hell.
April 4, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Waaaaa go cry me a river Mexicans…. Are you pissed because we beat your asses and took your land? Well maybe you should have fought harder.
Now your trying to breed us out. Wont work. The new laws against employers and landlords are working. Arizona is becoming a ghost town as all you dirty low class scum are crawling back to your shit hole of a country. Thats right, prove to me Mexico is nicer than the US…lol Your dirty low class scumbags turn neighborhoods into ghettos. Have you ever heard of actually taking care of your automobiles? Only a Mexican can ruin a car faster than it being submerged under salt water.
April 4, 2008 at 3:05 pm
To address a few of the comments:
Please look for America in the map, it is a CONTINENT not a COUNTRY. Mexicans, Venezuelans, Brazilians and US citizens are all Americans.
Also people, you might have read that Pernod (a French company) just bought Absolut from Sweden http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23878244/
Finally, it’s only a joke! Not being able to take a joke is a big sign of insecurity.
Be well, have a good weekend!
April 4, 2008 at 3:39 pm
For all who say that it was “Mexico’s” land before America’s, let us not forget who’s land it was before that, all the different native american tribes. So if you want to play that game then we can. You guys lost a war get over it, you’re lucky America had pity in 1848 and Zachary Taylor didn’t march straight into Mexico City and take over the whole country. It’s the way the world works it’s been that way for centuries. Don’t you think that you should try fixing your own countries infrastructure before trying to take back land that was once yours. America should be doing the same thing rather than policing a region of the world that doesn’t give a crap about us or “our” freedoms. We should all be more like the great philosopher John Stuart Mill and more Utilitarian
April 4, 2008 at 3:48 pm
BL- Don’t lie. I spoke to Jeffery Moran yesterday, twice who verified the ad is REAL and they are curently running it with no intention of bringing it down.
You people with your “America is a continent”- that is SOOO stupid. You see Canadians and Mexicans calling themselves Americans? NOOO, you thick skulled morons. The abbreviated version of the United States of America has been America for HOW LONG? Now because you say that, it’s somehow not valid?
Geez, you people kill me. Like it’s United Mexicans of America, or Canadians of America. People in Africa refer to the USA as America. What a stupid remark. Is that like, “No human is illegal?” I mean, what do you call all the convicts locked up in prison right now? ILLEGAL.
If it isn’t obvious why our country is better, I can’t think of a way to reiterate. Must be all the non-Absolut you guys are drinking down there, because you sure couldn’t afford the Absolut if you wanted it!
For anyone interested, Jeffery’s email has been disabled due to overload. Here is new contact info for Absolut:
Press inquiries from the US, please contact:
Sarah E. Bessette, Public Relations Manager
The Absolut Spirits Company, Inc.
401 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
USA
Phone, direct: 212 641 8653
Fax: 212 641 87 03
E-mail: sarah.bessette@absolut.com
April 4, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Facts? Mexico belonged to the Aztecs, was then stolen by Spain, then by France, then by Mexico who lost a war with the U.S. and ceded the land to the U.S. The now American part of the green was inhabited by a myriad of Indian tribes, none of which had a culture advanced enough to learn farming. Naturally they weren’t advanced enough to know anything about metallurgy so they weren’t wearing gold, silver, or whatever else was in the ground. All that part was part of whatever “Mexico” you want to claim.
April 4, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Mexicans,
There is nothing inherently wrong with Mexico.
You can fix Mexico.
You only have to find out what does work, what does not, and make a decision.
One thing you are going to need though, is the 10% of your population that is in the United States. They are your best people.
April 4, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Mexico is a despotic, poverty-ridden, corrupt, third-world cesspool.
If you want American terroritory, come take it from us.
Otherwise, STFU.
MOLON LABE
April 4, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Jenny, of course thead is real! Some ads are just jokes, or did you think Mr. Clean, the M&Ms characters and Burger King’s king really exist?
I hope you channel your anger into a positive action: volunteer, plant a tree, read a book, just be happy.
Only US citizens call the USA America; do some travelling, that might mitigate your anger and illustrate you a bit.
Peace
April 4, 2008 at 4:38 pm
wow… look at all the “divide and conquer” going on in here…
the shame of this day goes way beyond borders and races and religions, and whatever.
someone or something is playing you people and you are eating it up with a spoon…. meanwhile, they sit back and watch it like a football game…. just like every other conflict going on in this world today. it’s all just a game to them and you are their willing players.
stop it already… just say no
April 4, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I gotta think that the Mexicans, once they read this comment thread, will realize that the last thing they would ever want is for the people in the southwestern United States to suddenly be part of their country. That was some impressive rhetorical jujitsu, everyone! Our work here is done…
April 4, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I will never buy Absolute again.
This is disgusting. The looters will stop at nothing until there is nothing left to loot.
April 4, 2008 at 4:43 pm
BL- you’re pathetic to compare this with Mr. Clean- especially in light of the politics going on. Just for that, I’ll buy a Carbon Debit in your name.
And I have been around- and they do call USA America, and refer to the people as Americans. What’s wrong with you? You don’t even have to leave the country to see that, you can just read their own newspapers to see it in print.
If they don’t call us Americans, what do they call us, USA’ers? The Middle of North Americans? The States People? Britian’s Child? Your post is SO mind-numblingly stupid, it defies logic.
April 4, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Mexico has had over 100 years to turn itself into a prosperous, non-socialist country. Not going to happen in our lifetimes. The government is owned by the hidalgo-type rich and the druglord rich, with no attempt to encourage small-scale businesses, and no way for a poor meztizo to move upward in society. America is attractive to the poor in Mexico because we generally don’t care who your ancestors were (take a look at our recent Vietnamese/Asian immigrants starting businesses), as long as you are willing to work hard. We do have a concern that people who come to America do so legally. Yeah, I know, all Europeans were “illegal immigrants” 500 years ago, but I haven’t seen any Canadians or Hispanics volunteering to leave North America/Central America/South America to go back to their old countries and let the natives take over the two continents. Funny how it’s only the evil Yanquis who should leave. Anyway, the government of Mexico CANNOT afford to stop the illegal border crossings into Mexico. The illegals who are entering the USA are, generally, young, male and poor: the revolutionary class in Mexico. The Mexican government is deliberately exporting its potential revolutionists to America, to keep them quiet and out of the country. If those 12-20 million people had to stay home in Mexico without work or hope, the Mexican government knows damn well there would be government heads rolling in the public squares of Mexico.
April 4, 2008 at 4:49 pm
FYI I am a US citizen. Enjoy life and be happy
April 4, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Good bye Absolut. Your “negative publicity is still publicity” ad equals no more of my business.
Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the link to this site - but I’ll never come to this spic moron’s page again.
April 4, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Wouldn’t it be nice if Mexico had a future to look forward to, as well as a past to be proud of.
April 4, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Fabricio’s reply to the ad was straight and very forward. It was very turthful about Mexico’s attitude towards America. I am a 62 year old american and not mexican. I, like many of my friends, would like to see good people, no matter what race, come to this country and call it thier country. And also earn your right to call it your country - not hi-jack it for little or nothing besides sucking the blood out of it instead of contributing to it. How about becoming a citizen? Mexico is digging it’s own grave with the American population. Every American household now owes $34,000 to the federal reserve for the national debt - and Mexico isn’t helping matters. Mexico and it’s wannabe immigrants need to get thier crap together and do it rigth. You have to kidding with this ad - what a trouble making piece of crap. I was in the liquor business for 28 years and will never touch a bottle of Absolute again as long as live / or my the friends I am going to tell live.
April 4, 2008 at 6:17 pm
You will NEVER see a bottle of ABSOSUCK vodka in my house again. I just poured 1/2 a jug down the drain.
Now if we can get 12,000,000 ILLEGALS to go home maybe we can get the USA back on track. Of course, it would be more than possible if each of them took a flaming liberal back with them !!
April 4, 2008 at 7:19 pm
The makers of absolut and those Mexicans that envy us, can kiss my ‘Manifest Destiny’ backside. You want it back? Well you just come and take it! Oh, I see. That IS what you are doing. my bad…
April 4, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Absolutely disgusting.
“How then can we be immigrants on what was once our land?… ”
The exact same way you’d be a guest in a house you sold to someone else.
“How then can we be (illegal) immigrants on what was once our land?… ”
The exact same way you’d be an intruder in a house you broke into that you sold to somebody else.
Educate yourself on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo and the Gadsden Purchase than take your happy arse back home.
April 4, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Here is a list of the companies that market thru the Mexican Ad Agency TERAN\TBWA (e-mail bolsadetrabajo@terantbwa.com.mx ) That is the source of the disgusting Ad…
Absolut
Adidas
Apple
AstraZeneca
Fujifilm
Haagen Dazs
Nextell
Nissan
Pedigree
Roche
Twix
Call Contact and ask them why their subsideries do business with an add agency that markets potental Race War…
April 4, 2008 at 8:22 pm
GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY COUNTRY! NO HABLAS SPICK
April 4, 2008 at 8:57 pm
The advertising company said this in an article in the LA Times:
The campaign taps into the national pride of Mexicans, according to Favio Ucedo, creative director of leading Latino advertising agency Grupo Gallegos in the U.S.
Ucedo, who is from Argentina, said: “Mexicans talk about how the Americans stole their land, so this is their way of reclaiming it. It’s very relevant and the Mexicans will love the idea.”
Perhaps the makers of Absolut would think that this ad run in Germany would be equally funny and culturally relevant:
http://wiseasswear.com/absolut/
April 4, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Why was a Mexican flying at the Alamo with the number 1824 on it? Give that some thought. Better yet, crack a history book.
April 4, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Thats it.. Machine guns on the border. The South Koreans have automated machine guns manning parts of the DMZ. Lets get some of that going here. Or maybe enact “Operation Mexican Freedom”.
April 4, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Let’s do this the right way.
Mexicans can have Texas back, but first they have to give it, and I guess Mexico too, back to the Spanish, then the Spanish must return it to the French, at which point the French will hand it back to the Alabama, Apache, Atakapan, Bidai, Caddo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coushatta, Hasinai, Jumano, Karankawa, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Tonkawa, and Wichita.
Everyone happy?
April 4, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Way back when I was a kid, I read Mein Kampf. The lesson I took away from reading that book was that if some nutburger threatened to kill you,
it’s a good idea to take him at his word, and act accordingly.
The Reconquistadores from MEChA and La Raza both on their websites promise ethnic cleansing if they manage to regain control of the Southwest. They believe that and I believe that they are serious, ergo that map is inflammatory in the extreme.
The ad agency for Absolut is utterly reckless in supporting those positions with their advertising. And I think that maybe, rather than just going after their corporate schills, perhaps we should be flooding the Swedish Embassy’s email addresses. The ad agency doesn’t give a damn whether it promotes what we usually consider to be war crimes on one side and a strong reaction to that on the other, but I’m sure that if their government starts getting painted with being in favor of ethnic cleansing by acquiesence of non-negation, that the discomfort factor.
The email address for their Counselate in San Fransisco is : sf@consulateofsweden.org. You can also send mail to the Swedish Foreign Minister via their website at : http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2085.
If you want to turn up the heat, those are the two addresses that you need to mail objections to.
April 4, 2008 at 10:51 pm
How did those Minutemen jerks find this blog?
April 4, 2008 at 10:59 pm
I am happy I drink Stoli!
April 4, 2008 at 11:12 pm
yeah, I live in the green zone, trust me, any attempts to turn it over to mexico will be met with STRONG “resistance”
April 4, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Quite frankly, i think this entire argument is completely rediculous and i feel that it is necissary to address my opinion on a number of things:
First, Absolut simply tried to design an advertisement that would appeal to Mexican cosumers. Admitedly, this ad was rather extreme and over the top, but it is only a joke. Mexico invading and taking over the southwestern United States is about as likely as Kosovo taking control of Russia. It is never going to happen, as Mexico does not have the money, technology, or military might do do such a thing.
Second, The United States of America does have a severe immigration problem. We need to increase border security and decrease illegal immagration, because it is becoming a big problem. However, it would be completely unacceptable to close the borders completely or restrict legal immigration in any way. One of the great things about a democracy is that every law abiding man, woman, and child in any country has a right to become part of it, as long as they do so in a legal and responsible manner. as a matter of fact, it would be against the opinions of our founding fathers to do otherwise.
Third, Any “Patriotic” person posting on this page needs to remember that all americans are theoretically immigrants, except for the Native Americans. Actually, all of this land that we’re all currently bickering over really still belongs to them.
And finally, many of you immigration supporters need to realize that America won Texas, California, etc. fair and square in battle, and those states are and will be a part of the united states forever. I’m sorry if you still feel cheated and resentful about what happened 150 years ago, but thats just the way it is. You guys need to get over it and start striving to make Mexico a safe and hospitible place to live, so then nobody will need to cross the border illegally and this whole thing will resolve itsself.
So there you have it. The white supremacists, patriots, or whatever the hell the radicals are calling themselves these days just need to calm down, as do the people on the other side of the fence. You all need to remember it is hateful and disrespectful to bring violent threats and rascism into this argument, no matter what you think.
April 5, 2008 at 12:58 am
Come On People this is just an DAMN AD !!! Calm the F*CK Down.
No one is declaring any kind of “WAR” on America, well except our own Governemt, Not this distasteful company, not the mexicans, No One. Some of you are blowing this way out of proportion. The United State of America has so much more to worry about than this pathetic ad. Have you read reports of job losses since the beginning of the year how about the rising prices of food, gas, and living ?!?! How about the wild ride the stock market has been going through ? How about the value of the dollar going down the toilet ? How about the total disregard of the US constituation our president has had. HOW about the millions of Americans lossing their homes and OUR government does nothing to help them but yet they spend billions to bail out Bear Stearns and billions on a war we shouldnt be fighting ? We Still havent found those WMD’s that Iraq had. Oh. Wait. . . thats right that was another lie from the MOST CORRPUT ADMINISTRATION in US history.
Wake up People. We are on the threshold of economic disaster here and all some of you can do is whine about this stupid ad and mexican people. Why dont you focus this anger towards the government.
To many wanna be vigilantes. There are so many illegal immigrants here not just mexicans. Are you going to get ‘em all when you do you “ethnic cleansing” ?
Wake up people. Pay attention to whats going on RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW IN AMERICA !!! Wake up and stand up for YOUR RIGHTS ! There are more important things to get all hot and bothered about. Wake Up America before its to late.
Sadly the majority of you wont.
So when the government turns on its own people, taking away everyone of our civil liberties, our freedoms and our rights, our guns, when they start rationing our food, our gas, our money, when we see more and more jobs being lost, when we cant feed our children, when we have no homes when this country is in such financial turmoil, will this ad still be so important ?
April 5, 2008 at 4:48 am
Rights have been suspended before this Bush guy… Lincoln anyone??? We’ve had soup lines/job loss before.. Great depression anyone??? Rationing.. Remember WW2? Iraq is a matter of opinion and has nowhere near the rate of unpopularity Vietnam did. We found many chemical shells filled with nerve agent a year or two ago if you’ve been watching the news every day. They claimed they were “out of date” and was quickly forgotten about. I bet if you drank some or took a bath