Also he dictatorship are (officially) pride of doing their work for the state as Americans work multiple jobs in fear of losing their paychecks, their health insurance.
replyDo you really think someone waving their country's flag is the same as waving a flag with the face of a dictator? Worldwide?
replyThis thread was about omnipresent flag presence in factories and such. And the way it's done in America is different from many other countries.
replyIs it? The car dealership near where I grew up had a 100 foot tall pole with a Canadian flag at least 10 feet wide, probably more. And that's a car dealership... Flags were everywhere: gyms, offices, banks, schools, etc... Can't say I toured any factories to specifically know if they were there, but I'm guessing yes.
replyOf course now it's different, the flag is less common, to the point in my home province (Alberta) you see more Albertan flags than Canadian ones...
They're around, but America seems to uniquely worship them. At a joint US-$country venture we had both a giant US flag and a giant $country flag in the main lobby and I thought that was weird but our American bosses didn't.
replySo we Americans love our kickass flag…so what? It wasn ’t until relatively recent times that it became intertwined with whatever the fuck our current president stands for (for the next 12 seconds).
replyI’ve had a US flag up on my house for the past 15 years. This country has been good to the son of European immigrants. It’s far from perfect but I love my country. Meanwhile my European cousins, aunts and uncles are scraping by.