Our Pride #OrgullosoDeSer #ad

Disclosure: This is part of a sponsored campaign with DiMe Media and Coca-Cola. However, all opinions expressed are my own.

Latinos in general are super proud. Proud of our heritage, our culture, our traditions so you know we are passionate about our names! Ever since Coca-Cola came out with the #ShareaCoke campaign with the names on the bottles I have been scouring for a Candy bottle! Have you seen one? I need to just order one! Anyways as you can see I feel strongly about my first name, well I also feel much pride for my last names. I say names because I kept my maiden name after I got married. A lot of people don’t know this but the “p” in Candypo stands for my maiden name Perez and you can imagine the “O” is for Olivares. See I’m not of Asian descent, I’m Latina and so proud! I want to tell you about our pride today. Our pride that will carry on with our boys as they will carry family name into the future. In the Latino culture the first born male is almost always a Junior. Not the case with our family, not that I don’t like the hubs’ name but we wanted each of our boys to have their own name and plus they carry the last name automatically. Traditional in that sense we are not; but we talk about the family background with Big A often. He asks a lot questions too. When we lived in West Texas it was always neat to tell the boys about places the hubs had been to as a child. While there are cowboys and ranch hands in the history of our last name when they moved to East Texas the family became a lumber family. Hence the image of the Cokes on a pine tree stump. My father also worked in the same industry so this also represents my family as well. I can’t let the Perez side die down, te digo, I’m stubborn. 😉

Visiting World of Coke in Atlanta

As you can see we are Coke fans, so we really love the love that Coke gives for Hispanic Heritage Month. During Hispanic Heritage Month Coca-Cola is making Latinos feel prouder than ever about their heritage by celebrating one of their biggest sources of pride and evidence of heritage—their last name. National Hispanic Heritage month began last week on the 15th and continues until October 15th. Coca-Cola has been a part of so many of the important moments in Hispanic families’ lives and it wants to continue making new memories with them. This is why Coca-Cola is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, to unite families through their last name and empower them to share the story of why their family name makes them unique and #OrgullosoDeSer #[InsertLastName].

How many of you can say that las cocas from Mexico taste better? I’m saying YES I can! I can remember enjoying tacos or torts en la plaza (in the shopping square) with my aunt and uncle with an icy cold Coke. Memories I will treasure for all of my life. Coke has been a constant in my life growing up and as an adult. Now that I think about it we actually had a Coke dispenser at our wedding!! hahaha that makes me laugh. But as corny as it sounds I’m a Coke girl and it makes me happy to see the company do so much good.

Enjoy our mini video we made below and then watch the Coca-Cola video! Trust me you’ll get an immense feeling of pride watching it!

Coca-Cola created this unique film that embraces and touches upon feelings of unity and pride that come from our last names. Coca-Cola’s Heritage Tattoo Cans inspired moments of surprise and delight and celebrated the depth, variety and passion of Latino culture. This short film documents the profound feelings of unity and pride that come from our last names. Participants shared unique stories and displayed their pride by applying a temporary tattoo of their last name using the Coca-Cola Heritage Tattoo can. The film also evokes the power of family, culture, community and history, by bringing people together in celebration of their heritage and unique family stories.

How cool are those Coca Cola bottles right? Would you like to know how you can get your last name on a bottle?! “The Coca-Cola Heritage Tattoo cans were created for participants in Coca-Cola’s unique film that captures the profound feelings of unity and pride that come from our last names. These tattoo cans are not available for purchase. However, families can visit www.coke.com/OrgullosoDeSer to purchase a Share a Coke contour bottle personalized with their last names to share that pride with the world.”

Our pride signifies so much. We are a family with a rich past and I can only hope that the memories we are creating with our boys will help mold the name Olivares into so much more since they will be carrying it on. Wishing that you too share the orgullo/ pride with your children and share the meaning of your last name.

**Twitter Party Alert!!** 

Make plan to Join @CocaCola @DiMeMedia for the #OrgullosodeSer Twitter Party on 10/7 to share our #Latino pride & win cool prizes! 

Cheers! and don’t forget to #ShareaCoke 

Question: Will you be ordering your last name?

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