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American flags everywhere. Like EVERYWHERE. I get a bit of national pride but holy crap, every other house in the street is flying a flag, clothing has flag patterns, bumper sticker American flag, it's everywhere. And no, it wasn't even close to July 4.
It's like Americans are afraid they might forget what country they're in if they aren't in sight of a flag at all times.
It's kind of a warning marker. You dip into a small neighborhood with flags all over the place and it's not near 4th of July You've stumbled into a very anti-immigrant, anti minority* area. Their weaponizing patriotism.
Edit: f'ing dictation
It's worse now. Israel flags are everywhere now too.
On the rare occasion you see a Union flag in Britain I usually say βoh my god weβre in Britain!β
Yeah every time I see an american flag, I'm like yeah, I know where I'm at. I saw a Greece flag under the American flag at a house and I thought to myself, it would've looked much nicer with just the Greece flag.
They probably did that to prevent "concerned citizens" from attacking their property.
But then people would be confused and think Greece was invading.
I called this out after my first trip to the US, and then I came back to the UK just in time for the coronation weekend. Hahaha we definitely outdid them a bit in terms of flags which shut me right up. Especially working for an American employer for some reason, we went all out with a work do in the UK, union flags galore.
The difference is all our flags went away again straight after the coronation.
That's pretty standard for country celebrations I'd bet - around Australia Day we have plenty of people flying flags, but the day after it's back to normal
Examine photos of of Germany after 30 Jan 1933, you will see plenty of similarities.
Low effort patriotism
Fragile nationality
like there is a good kind