Man tears down Mexican flag

[Onkel Neal]

Video interview here
http://www.koat.com/video/13734667/i...=alb&psp=video

Why is a Mexican flag flying on a US campus, I don't get that.

[SUBMAN1]

SOmeone with a brain. Terrible that that flag was flying in our country.

To anyone looking for the vid, you must click news and then click on the flag video.

-S

[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.

[HunterICX]

I guess
when a foreign flag is wavering on your own country soil, its a sign of weakness....

[bradclark1]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

I guess
when a foreign flag is wavering on your own country soil, its a sign of weakness....

Might have something to do with Mexicans protesting/rallying for immigration and they were carrying Mexican flags. If you want to be part of a country don't fly foreign flags. If there is only one flag pole the stars and stripes should be flying. Want to fly another, get another pole.
It's a crazy American thing. It's not Mexico. You want to fly a Mexican flag go live in Mexico, or you can fly it at your home, it's your property or dangle it from your car rear view mirror but not public buildings.
Thats my view on it anyway.

[DeepIron]

Whats with this whole cult of the flag thing?

I'm surprised. You don't feel anything when the flag of your nation is displayed? I mean if you don't, you don't.... :hmm:

But it's not a "cult" thing... It's national pride in what the standard of our nation stands for (despite an on-going level of incompetent bureaucratic stupidity). All the things that Americans hold dear and close to their hearts are in the Flag.

When I was growing up in the '60s we placed our hands over our hearts and recited our National Anthem, re-affirming daily our committment to our ideals and our country. Everytime I see our Flag, I'm reminded of those committments...

Apathy? I believe that most younger Americans basically care less whether it's Old Glory waving in the breeze or some other flag. We have a REAL problem with illegal aliens from Mexico in this country and having the flag of Mexico flying either above the Stars and Stripes, or in it's place, is not acceptable.

I'm perfectly pleased to see someone tear down a standard that shouldn't be "up the flagpole" in the first place...

[fatty]

At a hotel I once stayed at in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, they were flying the Japanese flag, apparently because the Anne of Green Gables legend is so huge over there that Japanese tourists are a big source of revenue for PEI.

[DeepIron]

it's a sign of weakness....

Or apathy...

[Letum]

Originally Posted by DeepIron

Or apathy...

Apathy to.......flags?!

Whats with this whole cult of the flag thing?

[jumpy]

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.

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:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

*salutes*

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Originally Posted by jumpy

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!"

[jumpy]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

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!"

hehe the irony of the situation was several of the other students had the following flags on prominent display in their windows and nobody said anything:

Japanese Rising sun
Germany
The Soviet Union
Argentina

Can you spot the similarity with what some might consider the 'subtext' to these symbols of national identity?

Hypocrisy is something I became so much more aware of to the extent that I realised that there is not one corner of my life and interaction with others that it does not permeate in one form or another.

I'd bet the shirt off my back that the parent who complained was a white, middle class lefty do gooder. So seeing someone burning the union jack would most likely elicit little response. That was 15 years ago and I don't believe anything has changed for the better in this respect.

[kurtz]

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.

You of course mean the Union Flag...

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Video interview here
http://www.koat.com/video/13734667/i...=alb&psp=video

Why is a Mexican flag flying on a US campus, I don't get that.

Thats like asking me why is the flag of India flying on top of a northern council building, sorry the councils name slips my mind. They bought down the St George flag and put up the Indian flag.