"Few countries are as obsessed with their flag as Denmark..."
Then you are blissfully unaware of the act that America teaches their children an objectively creepy chant to be said to the flag at the beginning of every school day.
We have you beat, is what I'm saying.
@epic-pineapple-power The Pledge of Allegiance is one of those thing that no matter how hard I try to rationalize it after the fact, it still sits as the creepiest things done in schools. That, and the sheer ubiquity of the "fancy S"
@kawaii_kitten
I pledge allegiance
To the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the Republic
For which it stands
One nation
Under God
Indivisible
From Liberty
And Justice
For all.
...Holy crap that is creepy... WE 'MURIKANS ARE DELUDING OURSELVES! The flag will rise up... and conquer us all... dun dun dun...
@epic-pineapple-power
"few" still can count USA in, right? Besides, most of us all love our flag, we just show it in different ways
and i haven't seen any of usa's flags in a birthday cake or on a christmas tree .. And just so you know; we do have different danish flag songs... and (i don't know if this rule is used in US too but...) if you have a flag up after nightfall in Denmark then it's said that ; you are waving your flag for satan... danes are very obsessed with flag rules. o.O
@epic-pineapple-power That's??? not a thing in other countries??? I've spent my whole life in the USA... I always thought all countries made their students do that... I've been living a lie...
This reminds me of the time my Canadian wheat pool was bought out by an American corporation.
They made us all wear hard hats, and then refused to allow us to add any stickers to them. So we stuck Canadian flags all over them.
What are they gonna do, tell the Canadians in a century-old business and building that was recently bought out by foreigners that they aren't allowed to wear their own country's flag? The media would have had a field day.
It worked. After a couple of weeks they just quietly stopped enforcing the "No stickers" rule, and we were free to put whatever we liked on there.
This is actually a perfect example of the Danish mentality, lol! XD Tell us not to do something, and we will find every little loophole to mock you with it anyway. ;)
@Gylfaginning #9822387 Can anyone compete with America's flag obsession though?
A fair question!
US FLAG CODE:
point #4: "The flag should never touch anything physically beneath it." (shudder)
point #5: "The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds but always allowed to fall free."
@Hinoron One way to legitimately get around those rules is to not use a complete, correct flag. If your T-shirt has white stars on a blue background on one shoulder, and red and white stripes in a wavy pattern as if rippling fabric on the rest, but the stars aren't a rectangle with exactly fifty stars in the designated pattern, then you aren't actually wearing the flag.
DisneyWorld uses this to get around flag rules for the dozens of flags on top of buildings there. There's *one* real American flag there, which they treat according to the code very carefully, raising and lowering it in a respectful ceremony, by a veteran or family member whenever possible. The rest are all missing stars or otherwise aren't actual American flags, so they can be left up at night or in bad weather.
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Then you are blissfully unaware of the act that America teaches their children an objectively creepy chant to be said to the flag at the beginning of every school day.
We have you beat, is what I'm saying.