The multi-billionaire franchise we all know and love, Starbucks, and their cups, are in the spotlight of every social media website right now. Surprisingly enough, the color of their cups is stirring up a huge controversy. Every year, they release a winter cup at the beginning of November. In recent years, they’ve released various cups that displayed snowflakes, reindeer, doves, Christmas tree ornaments, and words like “hope” and “joy”. This year their cups feature… the color red?

People are outraged and feel cheated. Can you believe people are going to skip their morning Starbucks coffee, to show that Starbucks should Christianize their franchise? This is such a big societal controversy right now, that even Ellen DeGeneres has commented on it. There’s a twitter hash tag- #MerryChristmasStarbucks, meanwhile people that believe that this is just doltish and a waste of anger- created a hash tag- #ItsJustACup (peep the twitter war). Keep in mind that Starbucks’ cups have never featured anything directly Christian related. There are 23,000 Starbucks’ across 68 different countries. Do you think ALL of those sixty-seven countries have the same beliefs of 78% of America? Most likely not. We live in a world of diversity and acceptance. Why would Starbucks target one group of people with one religion when there are 4,200 religions worldwide?

Point being, why are people stressing about coffee cups, when we have people suffering in France, and people starving in 3^rd world countries? Be thankful you wake up every morning and have the privilege to drive to an overpriced coffee shop, purchase a six-dollar cup of coffee, and complain about what the cups look like.