No, there are a lot of flags like that. The worry is that flag waving is often
a symbol of rampant, one-eyed, jingoistic, 'mine's bigger than yours', 'love it
or leave it', shallow nationalism. And before I get beaten up for being
anti-murkin (not particularly - as we say in education, accept the person,
reject the behaviour) I have found this most disturbing on revisits to England
where waving a St George Cross flag has become popular in a way that it never
was in my youth - it would have been regarded as bad taste in fact, and
divisive too.
A flag is a symbol of ohsomany things and freedom may be the least of them.
Sport, on the other hand, is war by other means.
Except in rugby, where the means are very similar.
Andrew Fildes
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On 12/06/2014, at 9:03 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> The American flag is different; it does not represent a ruling family or a
> foreign government imposed on us. With the exception of the Native
> Americans, all Americans are descended from people who CHOSE to come here.
> The government belongs to us; this is a democratic republic, so even if
> government does something we as individuals do not like, it was done
> because the majority wanted or allowed it. Our national anthem makes clear
> that the flag is a symbol of our freedom from foreign rule.
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