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Loyalty to the flag (lemmy.world)

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 197 points 1 year ago

Such a creepy thing, getting children to chant in devotion to a state flag in schools.

It's the sort of thing they probably do in places like NK, or the Third Reich, you don't expect it to come from a supposedly modern, non imperialist nationalistic nation, ya know? :-(

[-] essteeyou@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago

I'm from the UK, my wife is from Singapore, and our son was born in the US. I really don't think it's appropriate to force him to pledge allegiance to the US, because he has strong ties to other countries. It feels like brainwashing.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 82 points 1 year ago

It is brain washing.

Where I'm from children sing the national anthem once a week at the school assembly and usually a few other songs too.

There are typically no flags.

[-] stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago

Germany: we sang the anthem about once a year if even.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

But that wasn’t always the case, now was it

[-] stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

That's the reason we stopped doing that

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well we defeated that ideology! And then wrapped it in red white and blue and made it our own! so take that!

^please^ ^help^ ^us^

^maybe^ ^you^ ^guys^ ^can^ ^invade^ ^us^ ^this^ ^time?^

^also,^ ^it^ ^was^ ^kinda^ ^the^ ^russians^ ^more^ ^than^ ^us…^

[-] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Not russians, soviet people. Well, russians too, but also ukrainians, belarusians/belorussians, armenians, georgians, long list of other nationalities that now their own states and even longer list of nationalities without one.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This is one if even two a year episodes of listening to anthem less, but if even once a year more singing than Russia. Kinda better, but not that much in this regard.

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