“I figured out why the U.S. is so good at the Olympics,” my roommate said the other day. “It’s because America has people from all different countries playing together on one team.”

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about what she said since. America is a melting pot—a land of opportunities, made better by all the people who came from all different walks of life to live in a place where they could be who they are, without judgment.

However, living without judgment often isn’t the case. On Super Bowl Sunday, Coca-Cola released a commercial featuring the traditional American song “America the Beautiful” sung in nine different languages: English, Spanish, Tagalog, Mandarin, Hindi, Hebrew, Keres, French and Arabic.

The response to this ad was incredulous. People from all over the country took to Facebook, Twitter and other social media networking sites to complain about the commercial, calling it offensive and disrespectful. One woman tweeted, “This is America, speak English!”

In my opinion, the commercial, featuring the Twitter hashtag #AmericaisBeautiful, sheds light on everything that makes America…America. People immigrate to the U.S. when they no longer feel safe in their own country. They come here to escape the prejudice, the injustice and the hostility of their own countries. They come here to make a better life for themselves and their families.

They do not come here to be secluded, looked down on and judged.

When first meeting a person, ‘what’s your nationality?’ is one of the first few questions you ask while getting to know each other. No one ever assumes that the person they just met is simply American, because America was built from immigrants from around the world. Diversity is something to be celebrated, not looked down upon.

Coca-Cola created an advertisement that gave a beautiful and accurate representation of America. The people who emigrated from countries all over the world built America, and it’s because of these people that America is the way it is today.