Foreign flags in the US

[Trivun]

I've no problem with other countries flags flying, I do have problems with not being able to fly my own countries, in my own country because of political correctness. Damn it why does the UK fail so frequently.

Yeah, I agree. Back in summer there was an event with the Sun newspaper doing a 'Help for Heroes' week where each day they had special features about the charity, plus a pullout Union Jack. In the whole week I passed countless houses when out and saw only two, next door to each other, actually flying the flag. Whereas when I went to Florida the year before for two weeks, I was in Orlando and saw plenty of houses flying the Stars and Stripes proudly. Likewise when we were in the theme parks, pretty much every theme park we were at during the two weeks (Disney, Universal, Sea World, Busch Gardens, and the water parks) were offering free entry for US armed forces, their families, and even British troops and all allied troops and their families. You just had to show them your country's military ID card or equivalent at entry to get free entry. At Sea World, too, and in all the animal stuff there and at Busch Gardens, they opened each show (especially Shamu) with a special thanks to all US, UK and allied troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and further reiterated how proud the Yanks were of them all. In the UK, our troops just get shouted and spat at and can't wear uniform off base because of PC nonsense. I was on a gliding scolarship with my old school and wasn't allowed to wear RAF uniform off the base because of that, even in civvies I was looked down at by the locals, who incidentally all live less than 500m from RAF Shawbury. Just for the record.

Sorry to turn this into a rant, but it ties in to the fact that in the UK people don't bother flying the flag anyway, and if we do someone complains and we have to take it down. I don't see what the problem is though, especially when some houses I've seen proudly fly the Indian and Pakistani flags and so on and are perfectly acceptable. But not the Union Jack, no siree.

[small]Disclaimer: My post is in no way intended to cause offence to anyone of any race or nationality, especially in the last paragraph. I simply wished to state my opinion on the flag situation in the UK. Thank you.[/small]

 

[Rath709]

I was going to post images of the Welsh Dragon, the Rainbow Flag, and a Jolly Roger for good measure, and then I realised I'm not jingoistic enough to care about people who rally around flags.

 

[Gelp]

I bet that if you waved your flag in foreign soil and people told you to stop you'd be shooting red white and blue laser beams out of your eyes.

I had such a great laugh picturing that, it practically brought my buzz back.

 

[Vuljatar]

Of course it should be legal. It's a "free" country. (Compared to most other places, at least.)

In many cases I do agree that it's tacky though.

 

[Anacortian]

No poll is as naturally accurate as a vote. A very large number voted to leave. That means many people wanted to leave. The Bloc Quebecois is not the Bloc Francophonic. I would argue that all French-Canadians are Quebecer until they become an unhyphenated Canadian. This argument would be backed-up by experience and study.

As to your xenophobic reaction to cultural diffusion, I believe people are more important than peoples. I do not care one hoot about the extinction of a culture so long as it is carried-out willingly by people voluntarily changing. I simply believe that each person is more important than our habits in the mass. This comes directly and only from my respect for human life. If you enjoy having a poly-culture (again, Canada does not have a multi-culure) so much that you deny others the right to choose how they wish to live, than you are placing habit above life, because in the end culture is only habit.

That being said, I believe that two cultures living side-by-side peacefully will necessarily make them one culture. In fact, if they persist very long without defusing, it would be a good indicator that they are not at peace. In such a case, they would either be ignoring eachother or making an effort to not let in the alien ideas. That is a very childish notion of peace.

Wrong. A very large number voted to renegotiate for a better deal. They were tricked by a misleading question.

My xenophobic reactions??? Huh??? Are you projecting? MULTI-CULTURALIST which is what Canada has defined itself as being (this Poli-culturalist concept you spew does not actually exist), is by definition the opposite of xenophobic.

And you really don't understand those who do want seperation from Canada, do you? Though I disagree with their methods and desired outcome, what they are ultimately fighting against, is the perceived extinction of their culture.

While you may believe the American value of the melting pot (two cultures living side-by-side peacefully will necessarily make them one culture), several cultures living peacefully within a country is the definition of Canadian culture. I don't recall a Canadian civil war, do you? I personally still believe that absorbing cultures into one is actually aggressive in nature and does a great disservice to humanity.

That's all I'm going to say on this topic. How about we shake hands and agree to disagree.

I'm very fine with simply ending this as friends. At the end of the day, I wish Canadians well. Their country is running the way they appear to be wanting it. God bless them. I do apologize for instigating this obvious tangent.

 

[Duskwaith]

Dosnt the Turkish flag have the islamic half moon on it and that being a very holy symbol it never gets lowered so how could you ask a muslim to lower it?

Id fly my flag regardless but some parts of America love the irish so id more than likely get away with it