Student Suspended For Removing Mexican Flag

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Orangekush423 said:
What's different?
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One involves a guy waving his own flag of his own country, and the other involves an American public school endorsing another country.

If the Saints were funded by American tax dollars, and then the organization hung a large French flag on the outside of the stadium to represent the portion of the community of French descent, then that might actually be a valid comparison...
 
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CountVolcula said:
Because they are in the U.S. When they come to this country, they live by our rules.They dont live in that country. You can celebrate your culture without flying another flag over American soil. Multi-culturalism is what is destroying this country. Hyphenated-American instead of just plain American.

I have friends that live overseas and they dont refer to themselves as American-German.

Give the PC a rest
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Um, you do realize that multiculturalism is the reality in the US of A, don't you?
 
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If Mexico is such a great country and they are so proud of it, why the hell do they jump the border by the thousands every day?
 
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tvolsfan said:
One involves a guy waving his own flag of his own country, and the other involves an American public school endorsing another country.

If the Saints were funded by American tax dollars, and then the organization hung a large French flag on the outside of the stadium to represent the portion of the community of French descent, then that might actually be a valid comparison...
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Funny thing, a lot of sports teams are funded in part from tax dollars.
 
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tvolsfan said:
One involves a guy waving his own flag of his own country, and the other involves an American public school endorsing another country.

If the Saints were funded by American tax dollars, and then the organization hung a large French flag on the outside of the stadium to represent the portion of the community of French descent, then that might actually be a valid comparison...
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And this endorsement of another country as you claim, does exactly what to America???
 
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CountVolcula said:
If Mexico is such a great country and they are so proud of it, why the hell do they jump the border by the thousands every day?
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The same reason your ancestors crossed the border from Europe. You don't think they had pride in their country they came from?
 
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Don't really care one way or the other about the rules here. However, a flag is a symbol of national pride, not so much culture. If you want to celebrate your heritage, there are plenty of ways to do that without simultaneously praising the country you left and disrespecting the one that's allowing you to do all that.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Um, you do realize that multiculturalism is the reality in the US of A, don't you?
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It has nothing to do with that.

Nobody is saying that the US is not multicultural. Not even saying that we shouldn't be, and if we are (which is true) nobody is saying that should be totally stricken from sight. You act as if someone is trying to strip their heritage from them in this situation, which is hardly the case.
 
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So an American flag flown beside another country's flag is disrespectful to America? How?

Again, this situation could've been handled better. I'm talking in a broader sense.
 
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Cash Vallin said:
The same reason your ancestors crossed the border from Europe. You don't think they had pride in their country they came from?
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Funny you bring that up.

Some of them had so much pride that they took up arms against their former country, and even fought against their own relatives to preserve their opportunity to live free.
 
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BeecherVol said:
Funny you bring that up.

Some of them had so much pride that they took up arms against their former country, and even fought against their own relatives to preserve their opportunity to live free.
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Fighting suppression and fighting your culture is totally different. The people who came over to fight were dang proud of their culture. They only left because the ones in charge were crazy. There is a difference.

My grandma spoke of Italy often. She had great pride in coming from there.
 
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Cash Vallin said:
in part, being the key words. when the titans came to nashville, SOME taxes went to them to build the stadium, practice fields, etc.
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but the Titans don't own those facilities. AFAIK the Titans are a private organization and do not receive any funding from the public. The public may have invested in facilities to attract the Titans but that is a separate issue.
 
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Cash Vallin said:
Fighting suppression and fighting your culture is totally different. The people who came over to fight were dang proud of their culture. They only left because the ones in charge were crazy. There is a difference.

My grandma spoke of Italy often. She had great pride in coming from there.
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Exactly, my point was when the succeed they didn't necessarily deny their roots, but embraced their new future.

And if she wanted to fly a 5x8 Italian flag in her yard no one should begrudge her for that.

But this is a different situation.
 
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volinbham said:
but the Titans don't own those facilities. AFAIK the Titans are a private organization and do not receive any funding from the public. The public may have invested in facilities to attract the Titans but that is a separate issue.
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it's not a separate issue. without those facilities, the titans aren't here. accordingly, the tax payers, played a big role in their being here.
 
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your point in saying pro-teams are publicly funded is to equate it to a public org (school) flying a flag vs. an athlete on a pro-team (which is a private entity).

the pro-teams are private entities pure and simple.
 
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BeecherVol said:
Exactly, my point was when the succeed they didn't necessarily deny their roots, but embraced their new future.

And if she wanted to fly a 5x8 Italian flag in her yard no one should begrudge her for that.

But this is a different situation.
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as long as it's on their property.... but by gosh if kids get together and ask those in charge to fly another flag beside the american flag, that's just downright unacceptable.

i'm not sure there is a difference.
 
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