Assimilation question : Why do some peple get upset if someone wants to show the flag of their native country?
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ignorance is what makes the world go round and round...
the americans who behave like that are simply people who have no idea what having to leave their home and venture somewhere into the world means...
they have no clue as to the pain, and the heartbreak these people have to go through...
it's easy to say, go back home when you don't know what it feels like...if you asked every person that has left their homeland what would they prefer...most would say that they would rather go back home...unfortunately, we do live in the real world and there are reasons other than trying to make more money that have driven millions to fleeing their home...
i was born and raised in panama part panamanian indian, part jamaican.if you live in philly...i have a panamanian flag on my front bumper, and a jamaican plate on the back one...i'm proud of who i am, where i cam from and i want everyone that shares the same background with me to know that i am here...
i could care less what any one else thinks of it...you don't like it...drive in the opposite direction...you don't like it...put up your own flag...you don't like it...say something...
shows how ignorant most of them are
They need to go back to their native country. If that flag is more important.
Because most ppl see that as having loyalty to that country rather than the U.S.
Its one thing to show a flag, its another to wave it in our faces.
hmmmmm, if their native country is so great they want to wave the flag....WHAT IN HECK ARE THEY DOING LIVING HERE????????
If you want to see people really go off, go to mexico and wave and american flag....hope you got on body armor dude!!
Because under the coward Bush, America has become less tolerant and more hypocritical of people who don't look, act and talk like them.
but you forget one very important thing..Porto Rico is not a u.s. state , the people there have voted not to become part of America..
It is funny, because it is usually the same people that put college flags on their cars on game days. They can be proud of the university that they went to, but don't think that anyone should be proud of the country they came from.
Just because you love your past doesn't mean that you don't appreciate your present. Unfortunately that kind of nuance is typically lost to those that only see the world as absolutes.
What about people from occupied nations who would get killed at home for waving their flag ? wouldn´t you offer the freedom to have some pride too ?
News flash: No kidding. It changes nothing. If the flagwavers in question like PR so much, they can go back to their little commonwealth and get out of the US. Note that a "commonwealth" is not a "state". i.e.g, part of the US. PR is a welfare dependent of the US not part of it.
Don't come here and march in a protest against my country beneath your country's flag and don't place your country's flag above mine on a flag pole or anywhere else. Respect America's flag as you do your own when you're in your country. I'm a Texan and there is no other state flag that I hold so dearly, but it comes second to the Stars and Stripes. So does yours!
But Puerto Rico is not part of USA because she chooses not to be.This is the USA and the American flag only should be shown. Other countries have the same tradition of respect and many feel insulted with the display of a foreign flag.
Your question is not about assimulation, but a subtle attempt to gain recognition because your are racially and culturally different from Americans who are white, anglo-saxon and protestant.
I always felt that people view a flag on a pole as a declaration of that piece of land belonging to that flag's nation. In older times that was exactly what it meant. During WWII many times when we invaded and took land the first thing we did was raise an American flag. Just like embassies, they are allowed to raise the flag of the nation they represent because the hosting nation views that little piece of land as being that of the ambassador's country. If you are from say, Spain and own your own land in New Jersey, even though that land is yours it is still a part of the US. That plot of land is not part of Spain just because you happen to be from Spain. I think that has a lot to do with why people don't like the display of other nation's flags.
It is discourteous to fly another nation's flag unless you also fly the American Flag in a superior position. That includes flags of commonwealths or other U.S. possessions.
To do so is to be insulting to America.
Assimilation means blending in not separating out.
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I don't have a problem with it unless they do it in a way that insults our flag: over ours in our own country, etc. Insults are INTENDED to upset people, so it is no surprise when they do.
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angela, that pisses me off, too. However, I support the law that gives them the right to do it.
I don't understand it either..They don't seem to whine when Americans burn their own flags here on American soil on Memorial Day, good question.
because it suggests that their presence in the USA is parasitic, that they are here to TAKE
Interestingly, I bought a small book on international business etiquette book years ago while traveling, and the book made a lot of sense about how to act in a foreign country (dont express a point of view on politics, its not your business, etc)
it also showed how unbelievably BAD the manners of modern American immigrants are!!
(book didnt discuss American immigrants, it only showed what correct manners are)
i don't see a problem with people having their flags on display. just as long as they dont disrespect the u.s.
As long as they show it while IN their native country, I have no problem with it. Whenever I travel to a foreign country, I always show respect for their customs, religions and practices and, yes, that includes ensuring that I don't wave the U.S. flag or act as if the U.S. is any greater than the country that I'm in. I wouldn't do it in Mexico or any other foreign country and I don't expect that it should be done here.
I have no problem with people showing their native flag, I myself have an American as well as Irish flag but I don't go around waving my Irish flag,insisting people learn Irish ,insisting that all illegal Irish here be given special rights, and putting it before the American flag. It's not pride in your native country and flag that is a problem, it's pushing it on others and making it more important than the countrys flag that you live in.
There is nothing wrong with having pride in one's heritage; however, it is disrespectful to wave the flag of one country on the soil of another (and I'm not referring to Puerto Rico, I AM educated).
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