Yes! Every country has its own brand of nationalism. It just so happens that different country have different flavors of it.
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The US is a big country and it depends on where you are. Usually, expression of patriotism is directly correlated to the number of dualies found in that region.
Anywhere you go, in any country, you are going to find a subset of rabid nationalists.
In my experience, Canadians living in the US are more prone to express their own patriotism by hanging American and Canadian flags. (That is just my experience and also shouldn't be considered a constant.)
This reeks of bias so it's probably of interest: https://typingadventure.com/vive-la-france/
Definitely depends where you are. Lots of big cities, regions, or states will tend to identify as from those places first. Here in Chicago people generally identify as Chicagoan and you'll see many more Chicago flags than American flags. But that's also in part because our flag is the best flag ever.
For anyone who (like me) wanted to know what the Chicago flag looks like:
Pretty cool 👍
Chicago's flag is a masterwork.
My city did a redesign about five years ago. Our flag was in a D to F tier flag ranking. After the redesign it's much better, but still feels like a logo more then a flag. At least they got rid of the written slogan, though!
Props to Chicago. Put that flag on everything.
I'm hoping Milwaukee adopts of the People's flag of Milwaukee soon. That's a serious banger too.
Britain (not the UK as a whole) has their moments, but its nowhere near the same intensity as the US
No, I have never seen that anywhere. That being said I have not visited the US nor most of the other countries. I am a french citizen and although I have witnessed the odd little french flag hung up in gardens (very uncommon, but I've seen it) the prevailing sentiment in France seems to be a certain pride in gastronomy, sports and sometimes sciences, and a general tendency to criticize most governments. Rightly so, I think.
I’m American but I’ve travelled a lot and the only place I can remember seeing anything close to as many flags was Greece. And it wasn’t that close. Americans are absurd about flags. Plus, the Greek flag is aesthetically lovely and the American flag might be bottom 5 on pure design principles.
No one get offended. I’m not insulting my own country’s flag. I’m just saying, 50 fucking stars and 13 stripes is a design nightmare. The Greek flag is simple and nice looking in lots of contexts. This isn’t a comment about honoring the flag. It’s a comment about vexillology and design.
Start watching other countries sports. Especially Formula One. Then you will see the flags and hear the anthems. At this point my husband has the British and Dutch anthems memorized
Nope. OK, maybe NK, if you insist. And of they can afford a flag.
Americans are weird with their odd interpretation of "patriotism". They pledge allegience to flag and constitution as kids, and trample both with their feet once they are adults.
Yeah, but it's more subtle. They won't say they're better directly, but they'll act like you're bad guys if you don't do everything like how they do it. See: the worship of the metric system. Also see: walkability where it reaches 110 in the summer and where it reaches -2 in the winter
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