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Do any other countries make students do this? (hexbear.net)

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[-] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

We had a ceremony every monday morning and friday evening were the whole school divided into each class stood at attention and said a pledge of allegiance followed by the national hymn in Turkey.

This was because we were in a private school where the rules were more relaxed. Public schools did it twice daily.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

When I was in Turkish school we used to sing the istiklal marşı to the decapitated head of Ataturk like he was a god. A god who secularized the country. I was surrounded by some of the most miliyetci fascists I'd ever met in that school. I stopped going because of the nationalism, and my turkish got worse.

My ex is an Italian who grew up in Germany, and she went to an Italian school where they had a similar kind of fascism going on. She stayed, but not her brothers. Her Italian is fantastic.

[-] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah standing in the middle of a whole school shouting "How happy for whoever can say 'I am turkish'" as a foreigner was a mixed bag of feelings even though the people typically where kemalist

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

that's the thing, the school had a large kemalist majority, but they stayed quiet and let the fascists push them around and indoctrinate their kids

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think in Australia it's once a week

EDIT: No wait, it's the national anthem. I don't remember a pledge.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance is (currently) about the US one, while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance_(disambiguation) has a few others.

The "under god" part was only added to it (for anticommunist reasons) in 1954.

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not in Wales (although the UK government has floated the idea of a pledge of allegiance a couple of times). What they did do was make everyone recite the Lord's Prayer. No-one was exempt, not the handful of Muslims, not the sizable portions of atheists, and not me with whatever made up religion I'd claimed I was in this week (I was deep in new atheism and would probably've become a misogynist if I hadn't grown up to be a woman).

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 8 months ago

We sang the national anthem at school assemblies, and that was about it.

It uhh...could be worse for you guys though I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

In Australia I only remember singing the national anthem at school assemblies about once a week

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah same. Sometimes there'd be a special assembly and we'd have to stand and sing for that too, but typically it was a once a week thing and no one was really forcing us to sing, just stand.

[-] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In kkkanada we had the anthem played in class every day.

It was a half-french half-english version, but on Fridays in elementary school we had the fun one that had the acapella quartet doo-wop guys recording.

In high school if you were late to school, you weren't allowed to walk to class while the anthem was playing.

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[-] Blep@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

Def do the national anthem in kkkanada

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

I live in an As Left As They Come area, so we do a land acknowledgement before the national anthem. It's very stupid and patronizing. 10/10 lefty-left extremely-left leftmaxxing, for sure.

[-] Blep@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

The reactionary hellhole school i went to did the same thing

[-] Spike@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

How many countries even have a "Pledge of Allegiance"?

[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Many countries still do this. Democracies, by the way.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

I don't know of any other country that has children make a pledge to the flag of their nation every morning in school. A bunch sing the anthem, but the pledge seems uniquely American.

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

In one school I did the national anthem and the Lord's prayer every day, when I moved to another school I was a little confused when we didn't do the Lord's prayer but we still sang the national anthem every day