try to find the commercial on youtube and share with us.

> TheYell wrote:

> "I don't see what the problem is..."

There are currently 12 million illegal aliens resident in the USA, many of them Mexicans, millions of whom insist the TRUE border is just as shown and last summer they were marching by the millions in US cities under a Mexican flag.

This is like American Express running ads showing all Ireland, Wales and Scotland as separate of England like it was in 1100<

Out of a population of 250,000,000 I'd say that 12,000,000 is not bad, although I must wonder how you know there are that many?

We have a few Britons like that, they move to Brittany (in France) and fly the Union Jack and all that, which is funny as Brittany has not been part of Britain for over 1000 years I think. The local French just find it funny.

I wonder if Absolut are planning an Eireish campaign, with Northern Ireland not under English rule? That would be fun

Personally I wouldn't care about your theoretical advert, and I doubt anyone else in the UK would either, because it wouldn't be saying anything we haven't been shouting at each other for the last 1000 years. Remember, you're talking about a country that is only ever truly united during wartime.

as a seller of products it's not a good idea to piss off their consumers, and tinkering with land borders is the easiest way to piss off people; even a hint of a suggestion is enough to get many people into a frenzy

these guys essentially pissed on a larger part of their consumer base to appeal to a smaller consumer base, which is really silly of them hahahahahahahaha

Some people today seem chill. Too chill. They think nothing is worth getting upset about. If nothing upsets you, then nothing is meaningful to you. Just because you live a sad existence of emptiness does not mean everyone else must follow suit. Life is not a joke.

"I don't see the problem...America did forecfully take those territories from Mexico. May as well be gracious in victory."

America didnt forcefully take Texas. Texas seceded from Mexico and then Texas applied for Statehood in the US and was refused for many years.

or trival things such as lines on a  map.... show me where these lines are in the land and I will start to take them seriously...

but anyway, since advertising is supposed to be about appealing to people, one has to think twice before spreading advertising in one nation which is not going to go down too well in other nations; naturally western people are pretty tolerant of such silly moves, but that doesn't make it less stupid a marketing ploy (not every publicity is good publicity)

@Avo
"America didnt forcefully take Texas. Texas seceded from Mexico and then Mexico applied for Statehood in the US and was refused for many years."

You typo-d.  That second Mexico should be Texas.

@YF
"or trival things such as lines on a  map.... show me where these lines are in the land and I will start to take them seriously..."

Ever heard of rivers?  And that American-Mexican border does have a fence...  I would also like to point out that most places have signs instead of lines.

@PVP
"If you get offended by a joke you are too serious and uptight. The ad was a joke."

I don't think their explanation included the word "joke" in it.  Although, I would agree that American's reactions may have been taken a little too far that it required an explanation, since the ad was displayed in Mexico only, and then made its way across the border from Mexico (oh the irony...).

i dont know, i think it wouldnt go over to well with the French if there was an add calling Alsace-Lorraine region part of Germany...

"Rivers are not lines, and the fence is artifical.... it means nothing... it wasn't there 200 years ago, and it probably won't be there in 200 years."

Lines are artificial.  No such thing as a line unless you drew it.  Going by that statement, seeing as how a fence is built in a line, I'm going to assume that it simulates a line.  Same thing with water.  You create a moat around a castle, you now have a line between the castle and whatever is on the other side of the moat.

"I respect those who fought for an ideal, for a way of life... but any who fought purely to ensure some line on some map stayed put (as opposed to making sure that the people behind them didn't get slaughtered/raped/whatever by the people in front of them) they don't deserve my respect."

It isn't so much as a line as it is what that line contains.  These are territories, stretches of land that have resources within them.  People don't fight for a line, they fight so that line can give them as much as possible.