(February 18, 2019 at 1:59 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: The pledge of allegiance is a strange thing to my British eyes. We have nothing like it over here. It looks like indoctrination, a bit like the oath the Wehrmacht made to Hitler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoZw9xz0OY4
Same thing here in Portugal. I mean we learn the anthem in History class, but it didn't came on exams nor we were made to recite it in school whatsoever.
It was mandatory before '74, but that was when we were under dictatorship.
