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Don’t you guys also do a pledge of allegiance and other weird stuff? Also, in most every other country, the national anthem is only ever sung when the country
by romafirst3 3y ago
Don’t you guys also do a pledge of allegiance and other weird stuff?
Also, in most every other country, the national anthem is only ever sung when the country is playing an outside country not for internal competition.
- labster 3y agoYes we do a pledge of allegiance every day at school, and many government meetings and social club meetings. A lot of that stuff is early adopter weirdness. You see, other nation states have things like a historical culture or common language to unite them, but the US had to invent a national identity out of whole cloth when no other nation was doing nationalism yet. We need rituals to affirm that we are the members of the in-group.