I don't think so. People should be allowed to be pround of their nationality or heritage without having to have an American flag there too.
Foreign flags in the US
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Straight up. Besides, American culture is insidious enough. Fly whatever flag you want, but your children will be American. Your grandchildren won't speak your language. Your great grandchildren won't remember where you came from.Wasder said:
Because there are a lot of Irish immigrants in the US, just as there are a lot of Italian, British, Spanish, Mexican, Cuban.. *fade out*J474 said:
*fade in* Korean, Chinese and Japanese immigrants in America as well.
But their patron saints days aren't centred around wearing green, talking like the Leprechaun off the Lucky Charms adverts and drinking a shit load of booze.
They don't have a monarchy or relate to, methinks, so they look to their flag as the symbol of their state more than we do.Skeleon said:
Don't get me wrong though, I dislike the monarchy system with a passion.
If I agreed any harder I'd probably explode through sheer sycophancy.Amnestic said:
British people need to start flying this bad boy on their flagpoles.
More on topic, of course they should be allowed to fly different flags, freedom of speech and all that jazz.
In Germany or England, everyone (well, mostly everyone) is English or German, in every sense of the word, because those countries aren't very diverse in comparison to the U.S.. Of course, in the U.S. we have people from practically every country in the world living here as citizens both naturalized and immigrants and the mixture is so diverse that people like to show that they (or their family) originated from X country, be that Ireland, Russia, Zimbabwe, or Mexico.
We are great as a country because people are proud of and show their heritage and not in spite of it. OP, your intolerance of other people's pride in their heritage is an attitude you need to drop immediately.
We are great as a country because people are proud of and show their heritage and not in spite of it. OP, your intolerance of other people's pride in their heritage is an attitude you need to drop immediately.
That's a kind of stupid thing to pick on.
Does it really matter? They're just pieces of cloth.
Also, it isn't necessarily disrespect, people may just be proud of their heritage.
Does it really matter? They're just pieces of cloth.
Also, it isn't necessarily disrespect, people may just be proud of their heritage.
My point was that they (seemingly) arbitrarily chose Ireland's saint to steal. I realise that just about every American comes from an immigrant family, I was meaning that they only do one. Although thinking about it, they did choose one of the nations whose stereotype involves being drunk, that could have something to do with itAmnestic said:
Sorry but flying another countries flag is tacky? No, no, no Americans dont get to go there I'm sorry but the country that brought us this:
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Revoked any right to comment on whats tacky or not, seriously look at it >_>
Revoked any right to comment on whats tacky or not, seriously look at it >_>
Wow, that's gay. And I don't mean that derogatory, it's merely descriptive.Nmil-ek said:
Also, @ sov68n, I don't know the American numbers for comparison, but about 20% of Germans are actually immigrants or descendants of immigrants, I'd call that pretty diverse. And hey, it's what we need. Westerners aren't producing enough kids, we'd die out without immigrants. Even today we have a lack of skilled workers and need people from outside to fill these positions.
It's a flag, a piece of cloth with colours and shapes on it.
It has no meaning outside of that which we give it (if you were to hand an American flag and a Russian flag to an Alien or someone who's never heard of either country, or even the concept of countries, they would struggle to understand why some people get so attached to them).
EDIT: Also, to the person who stated that England isn't very diverse in terms of it's population.
Outside of the 'native' population we also have:
Indians, Pakistanis, Polish, Saudi Arabian, Chinese, American, Irish and mahy other nationalities (the UK has become recognised as a proverbial 'hub' of the world which has also resulted in some people worrying about the 'disapperance of British identity').
It has no meaning outside of that which we give it (if you were to hand an American flag and a Russian flag to an Alien or someone who's never heard of either country, or even the concept of countries, they would struggle to understand why some people get so attached to them).
EDIT: Also, to the person who stated that England isn't very diverse in terms of it's population.
Outside of the 'native' population we also have:
Indians, Pakistanis, Polish, Saudi Arabian, Chinese, American, Irish and mahy other nationalities (the UK has become recognised as a proverbial 'hub' of the world which has also resulted in some people worrying about the 'disapperance of British identity').
America is about independance but want everyone that enters to follow suite with all the other Americans. If your gay everyone sterotypes you for being different, or in other words INDEPENDANT. If you want to see freedom go to Canada. The only places that you will find flags frequently are at schools or government buildings.Booze Zombie said:
You're getting your holidays crossed based on titles. The premise of St. George's Day was the same as our flag day basically an excuse to take off work and to say 'yay we're a great nation' only differance is yours is a man who never existed and ours is a flag. At least the way I saw it celebrated (which was raise some flags, drink, and eat meat)J474 said:
St. Paddy's day in the USA would more appropriatly be called 'irish heritage day' or 'pretending to be irish day.' It's pretty much a nation wide holiday where everyone claims how they are somewhat irish which is probably true because of the massive amount of irish immigrants in the 1840's onward. We also dye things green, pinch each other and listen to the dropkick murphy's (who are from boston). As you can [a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States] see here [/a] we have a sizeble chunk of people who claim irish ancestory. I think I and my immedite family are the only people I know who aren't at least a bit Irish or German.
Hahahahahaha! Not in the seven rings of hell would I even consider that. People can fly whatever the fuck they feel like (as long as it's seen as non-offensive) because this is human rights! If I were living in America I would never fly an American flag but fly something else because I damn well want to. I'll fly a banner that protests for equality to get at people like you for thinking otherwise.sneakypenguin said:
I'm sorry, but what you had just said was textbook prejudiced. Go learn yourself some culture good sir, and not your own. Find out what it means to be a Mexican then shut up about someone flying their flag. None of this McCarthyism bullshit you hear! You're the kind of folk that make me sick to see the American flag waving around.
Personally, I think the obsession with flags is a bit silly. Yes, it's a symbol, but when people in America proudly wave their flags, they just do it to be in the Patriot Club or whatever. Most of them don't know, or don't care, about the ideals of democracy, they're just told "America's the greatest nation on Earth" and they nod in agreement because that's all they know.
Also, I think it's weirdly ironic that pretty much all the flags and flag-based paraphernalia in my country are made in China.
Also, I think it's weirdly ironic that pretty much all the flags and flag-based paraphernalia in my country are made in China.