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...removed and students will receive an Evian bottle for daily showering. In most respects, this sucks. But hey, it’s Evian. 12) Grey Goose at Stein Clubs...oh wait. Scratch that—thanks, Pilbeam. 13) Harvard will purchase a Caribbean island. It will serve as the Ad Board’s Guantanamo Bay. 14) Svens for everyone. (Blackberry commercial, anyone?) 15) Drew Faust will launch a task force on how to spend increased funds. Unfortunately, the cost of that task force is the funds...
...That may be overstating it, somewhat: It's unlikely that most Mexicans really feel that mid-19th century life was exactly "ideal." But the heat generated online by the ad does reveal that the war and resultant redrawing of the map 160 years ago can still spark a furor on both sides of the border. Thousands of critics accused the ad of being anti-American and took pains to defend the inclusion of the southwestern states into the union. "It is absurd to believe that the U.S. stole Texas and California since most inhabitants of the Southwest considered the 19th...
...Others defended the ad for reminding the public about the war. "Anti-American? The only thing they did was to show how one day the U.S.-Mexico map was. Or is the Mexico-U.S. war and how the U.S. stole Mexican territories not part of the American continent's history?" retorted a blogger who called himself Asturcon...
...writers have even portrayed the vast immigration of Mexican workers to southwestern United States represents a Reconquista of the lost territories. And it was precisely this equation of the old map with the flood of immigrants into the southwestern United States that angered many who blasted Absolut over the ad...
...Jorgensen. However, Mexican intellectuals view the re-conquest as cultural rather than military, talking with satisfaction over the fact people in California are speaking Spanish and eating enchiladas. No one in the mainstream of Mexican politics seriously contemplates an offensive northward. Mexico City car mechanic Santiago Gomez finds the ad funny, but would prefer California to be in U.S. rather than Mexican hands. That's because he plans to move to Los Angeles later this year to work with a friend already there. "I don't want to fight a war to reclaim these lands," he said smiling. "If Mexico...