The prime time for the advertising industry comes only once a year– during the Super Bowl. At this year’s game Coca-Cola released an ad in which “America the Beautiful” was sung in seven different languages and not only the most wide-spread languages but also some indigenous languages as well. This sparked a huge debate over all social media including Twitter and Facebook, some even took to YouTube to voice their opinions, commenting things like “When we sing a song about AMERICA, can it please be in ENGLISH?”

Others approved saying it stood for America’s “melting pot” history. Mrs. Clough, head of the foreign language department, said, “We should embrace the differences. Our Bill of Rights doesn’t say ‘Only English speaking men are created equal.’ We need to get over this language phobia that some have.”

Many teachers at Bob Jones use foreign languages to help students every day. One such is Mr.Rutledge, a BTC teacher, who uses translators in Microsoft Word and Google Chrome to aide in communication with one of his Japanese-speaking students.

Another student, Siri Rossly, came from Norway this summer as an exchange student and speaks English, Norwegian, and some Spanish, German, Danish, Swedish. She said her experience in America has been a positive one.

“People are way nicer here, but it’s more conservative…dress code is not a word in Norway at all, it’s just express yourself. I think [the commercial] is really cool.”

Many people have pointed out that while some states do, the United States of America does not have an official language because so many people immigrate to the U.S. for freedom, freedom of speech included.