Yes 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. Yo

Yes 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.