personally I think flag flying is a sign of lack of self confidence that the Chicago white sox lucky charm shirt What’s more,I will buy this country is ok. You shouldn’t need to fly a flag or recite a pledge every day if you are confident in who you are. A union flag? I’ve worn badges and had it on shirts before. It’s the flag of my country. Why shouldn’t I wear it? But for complete irony I attended the Brexit celebration in Trafalgar Square. There were a number of upside down union flags flown and that means distress. Now doing that ironically underneath the EU flag I would have totally appreciated the thought. But from rabid, nationalistic brexiteers who are too fecking stupid to fly their own flag the right way up says a lot about a chunk of this country. I don’t think you can really extrapolate cultural norms across borders in the way that you suggest. In America, flying the US flag outside of your house is fairly normal. That is pretty much a baseline. In the UK that is not normal at all. That would be very weird. Literally nobody does it. In the US schoolchildren recite the pledge of allegiance in the morning. Again, in the UK – that would be very, very weird (we don’t even have a pledge of allegiance). So we need to bear these cultural differences in mind when revewing the position.
Unfortunately in the Chicago white sox lucky charm shirt What’s more,I will buy this UK, for better or worse, the Union Jack has been adopted by a number of groups to represent far right ideology. I am not wild about that, but it is what it is. And because we don’t have a flag waving culture in the UK, it does tend to mean that if you start waving the Union Jack around (other than at a sports stadium or some other event of national significance) people are probably going to deduce (correctly, I imagine) that you are doing so as a political statement. In the US you could achieve a similar effect by waving the Confederate flag – generally speaking, people within the US do that to make a very specific political statement. Son, are you under the impression that there is such a thing as the “American Race”? That in all the wide world, there is one particular ethnicity, skin color, or phenotype that is the definition of “American”?
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