RE: Boy kicked out of scouts for refusing to swear allegiance to god
October 21, 2012 at 11:47 am
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2012 at 11:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Pretty damned well, but if it's besides the point why did you ask?
Quote:If everyone did maintain their own seperate identities in the US, you'd now have innumerable ethnic enclaves, where the respective languages of those communities would be official languages, and taught in school, with having their respective flags flying over autonomous parliaments.LOL, again, your boogeyman example arises from never having lived here. We do teach "immigrant languages" in schools..american english itself is an immigrant language. You will find flags in peoples cars, on and in their houses, at their businesses, tattooed on their bodies.....everywhere. Why would the federal government of the United States of America fly some other nations flag? Nation identity =/= cultural identity (even you don't think this to be the case, or else you wouldn't be pushing for ethnocentric nationalism). You have strange ideas about why the Civil War occurred...and hey, guess what, you can still find those flags flying all over the god-damned place. You'd be able to maintain your distinct customs as well in the US as you cared to (supposing that they weren't illegal...but even then......still as well as you cared to).
It was due to this that you had your civil war, to bring those people under a single national identity, forcing them to discard their old identity for a new one. Obviously, everyone knows from whom they come from, even I'd probably know that I'm a Turk even if I were born and raised in the US, but how well would I be able to maintain our distinct customs in the US?
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