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Originally Posted by jumpy
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Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips
We had three flagpoles outside our school. In my 4-5 years of being there, I never saw the Union Jack. We had Uganda, France and Germany, but never Britain.
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During the last 2 years of my time at boarding school (ie 6th form) I had a union jack flag in my window which I was asked to take down, by my house master, because a parent had complained that it was 'overly nationalistic'. 
It really annoyed me at the time, and gave me a little glimpse of what to expect from the world outside of the school. Nothing has really changed in this respect except for the fact that I'm now a little more pragmatic in my feelings towards such incidents; I'm not going to let something as silly as someone elses narrow point of view bother me to the extent that it detracts from my daily life.
At the end of the day it's just a flag and I'm not going to be swayed in my thought by other peoples ideas and behaviour, if they want to get all p r i c k l y * about it that's their perogative, more power to them, but I'm not going to subsume their attachement to an icon like my national flag.
As Letum mentions, all too often natinoal pride sinks to become something altogether more unplesant.
* damn sweary filtre, what happens if I write s****horpe? :rotfl:s c u n t h o r p e, it's a place in the UK you know :hmm: |
What niggles me is, we bought the headteacher one to put up there. I can understand the Uganda one, because our school was linked with a college there, but France? And Germany? Last time I checked this was the United Kingdom, and I'm just as proud of our flag as the Yanks are of theirs.
I bet you that parent who complained about your flag would soon complain more if they saw someone burning it. Nowadays its all "We cant be overly British, it'll offend the Muslims!"
