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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Well I've just read every comment on this thread and I'm relieved to realize that our recitation of our National Pledge of Allegience at every opportunity is in-fact seen as totally normal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Living in Florida I feel it's more common to see publicly. Recently join a "Walk for Heart Health" type event and it started with the national anthem and pledge. Local army ROTC high schoolers also came by a did... some form of rifle performance. This all was to "kick off" the event and most people had hands on their heart type stuff the whole time. Not to mention the city has "Land of the Free" flags on all the light polls in that plaza and it was interesting just HOW MANY people in florida wear those 1776 shirts or the "F around and find out" shirts still.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It is not, but it's also hard to notice as a tourist. I've learnt that from here

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I only really saw that in grade school. And it was a Red Scare thing. Super culty, but so is all the McCarthy stuff.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you ?

At a point I was travelling a lot to the US, the only time I heard the national anthem was before a Rodeo in Texas, and I never saw someone reciting the "pledge of allegience

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Mostly in schools, so not something a traveller is likely to see

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I can't tell you how much humor I found in this response to that comment. ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well... not my culture, I guess ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It was made to sell flags

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeees, totally normal and culty at all...