My husband is German and has always found the crazy flag waving patriotism of the US odd. I never really understood his position until the last few years. Having been raised in the US, all of that seemed completely normal to me, but now I view it very differently.
Do other countries not have citizens flying their national flag? To my anecdotal knowledge, Italians, Mexicans, many South Americans are extremely proud. In my Brazil-American majority neighborhood, you know where literally every Brazilian-American lives because they have the flag of Brazil flown.
You rarely see Mexican flags in Mexico or even national colors outside of football contexts. In fact it’s technically illegal to display flag because it is considered an official emblem of national authority (kind of like wearing a fake badge).
Mexican flag use is mostly a Mexican-American thing which is influenced by American flag use…
I was raised by European immigrants back when we still had segregated areas and waving their countries flag around was a matter of pride, which included plenty of Germans.
So this idea is new, and when I’m holding the American flag it isn’t against any country. It is for the idea it represents, and i don’t care if we never achieved it. No country has.
My husband is German and has always found the crazy flag waving patriotism of the US odd. I never really understood his position until the last few years. Having been raised in the US, all of that seemed completely normal to me, but now I view it very differently.
Do other countries not have citizens flying their national flag? To my anecdotal knowledge, Italians, Mexicans, many South Americans are extremely proud. In my Brazil-American majority neighborhood, you know where literally every Brazilian-American lives because they have the flag of Brazil flown.
You rarely see Mexican flags in Mexico or even national colors outside of football contexts. In fact it’s technically illegal to display flag because it is considered an official emblem of national authority (kind of like wearing a fake badge).
Mexican flag use is mostly a Mexican-American thing which is influenced by American flag use…
In my brief experience Parisians are extremely patriotic, the number of national flags I saw there is about up there with Americans.
I was raised by European immigrants back when we still had segregated areas and waving their countries flag around was a matter of pride, which included plenty of Germans.
So this idea is new, and when I’m holding the American flag it isn’t against any country. It is for the idea it represents, and i don’t care if we never achieved it. No country has.