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The weirdest thing about American culture

22 days ago by cm0002 to c/funny

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kadotux 34 points 21 days ago

Yeah it's gotta be the daily allegiance to the flag -thing for me. That shit hella weird.

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Bytemeister 5 points 21 days ago

I stopped saying the whole pledge in kindergarten. Didn't seem right to pledge to a god I didn't believe in.

Pretty much stopped saying it all together after 9/11

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merc 1 point 21 days ago

"I pledge allegiance to the the Flag of the United States..."

Unless you think the flag is a god, you're not pledging to a god, you're pledging to a piece of fabric, or to the design printed on that fabric. Which, honestly, is a lot weirder. How can one have allegiance to a flag? What about the opposite, is it possible to be disloyal to a flag?

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Bytemeister 6 points 21 days ago

...for which it stands, one nation, under god...

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Logarrhythmia 2 points 21 days ago

Huh, just checked the text and I was surprised to find that the god part was only added in 1954.

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Bytemeister 5 points 20 days ago

Yep, because soviet spies were godless heathens who can't/won't lie about their faith in order to sneak into the US.

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AnUnusualRelic 3 points 20 days ago

It was an easy way to spot them back then. A bit like vampires and garlic.

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