What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Dec 15th 2016, 8:07 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
They are burned but I think they have to be cut up in a certain way first. It's all very, very weird.
Dec 15th 2016, 8:12 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Being a vet myself I hold a certain respect for flags, the flag of my native country and the flag of my host country. However the assumption that soldiers fight for the flag is a false one. Soldiers fight for each other first and foremost and always have.
Dec 15th 2016, 8:18 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
I don't have one and if I did it would probably stay indoors so it's not likely to ever need disposed of.
Also, black bin bags ...
I'm kind of into vexillology and the history of various flags is interesting but beyond that, I don't place any significance on one over the others. I certainly don't think a piece of cloth deserves respect and definitely not to the point of sycophancy like it is over here.
There are thousands of flags, from national ones, to former national flags to those of states, counties, cities. I prefer to treat them all equally, myself.
Also, black bin bags ...
There are thousands of flags, from national ones, to former national flags to those of states, counties, cities. I prefer to treat them all equally, myself.
Dec 15th 2016, 8:23 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/
but beyond that, I don't place any significance on one over the others. I certainly don't think a piece of cloth deserves respect and definitely not to the point of sycophancy like it is over here.
Dec 15th 2016, 8:27 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Nobody cares about offending nationalists. They deserve to be offended. And slapped with a dead fish on a regular basis.
Dec 15th 2016, 8:45 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
I don't have one and if I did it would probably stay indoors so it's not likely to ever need disposed of.
Also, black bin bags ...
I'm kind of into vexillology and the history of various flags is interesting but beyond that, I don't place any significance on one over the others. I certainly don't think a piece of cloth deserves respect and definitely not to the point of sycophancy like it is over here.
There are thousands of flags, from national ones, to former national flags to those of states, counties, cities. I prefer to treat them all equally, myself.
Also, black bin bags ...
I'm kind of into vexillology and the history of various flags is interesting but beyond that, I don't place any significance on one over the others. I certainly don't think a piece of cloth deserves respect and definitely not to the point of sycophancy like it is over here.
There are thousands of flags, from national ones, to former national flags to those of states, counties, cities. I prefer to treat them all equally, myself.
Flags might stand for something you respect, but treating the bit of cloth as a fetish object is a bit strange.
Dec 15th 2016, 8:52 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Anyway vexillology is way more interesting and enjoyable than exeptionalism. It won't make the US or the UK crumble into dust if I say the Bavarian flag is pretty cool, or I like Nepal's unique design, after all.
Dec 15th 2016, 9:12 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
That's a great word - I had to look it up. It comes from Latin and Greek joined together, apparently.
Dec 15th 2016, 9:15 pm
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Dec 15th 2016, 9:33 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Republic of Newfoundland has a good one - pink, white and green tricolour.
Dec 15th 2016, 9:49 pm
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Dec 15th 2016, 9:55 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
I had an old flag that we acquired from a storage unit sale, it came free with a load of garden tools. I put it up on my kids treehouse. Is there anything bad about it being covered in bird shit?
Dec 15th 2016, 10:37 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
Like a dose of the clap I try to avoid arguments for and against the flag. Some argue that thousands died for a flag. I think that's BS. Flags have been used as a tool to recruit cannon fodder in past wars. Americans take their flag seriously and I'm careful to avoid showing any disrespect and if a family of a fallen soldier place a flag on his marker on Memorial day and believe that he died for the flag that's fine with me.
In my own case the flag I fly from my porch is the LA Lakers flag
In my own case the flag I fly from my porch is the LA Lakers flag
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Dec 15th 2016, 10:57 pm
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Re: What was the biggest culture shock when you moved to the USA?
What did people do with their USC citizenship flags?
