Re: "it's time that we do"

On 15 Jan 2006 11:33:20 -0800, "TsuiDF" <stephanie.mitchell@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>Mike Lyle wrote:
>> I very much admire, and after long residence share, the British
>> failure to do this flaggy kind of thing: but I suppose it would be a
>> tacit admission, at long last, that it's an immigrant society like
>> everybody else.
>
>As emigrants from England to the US, we were rather stunned (and I, for
>one, was very much offput) by the massive flag displays over there. I
>still find it a bit odd to see the huge flags flown by used car dealers
>and hung at ice hockey rinks and such there. My classmates in high
>school there found it odd that I didn't jump to my feet during pep
>rallies (another bizarre institution) to salute the flag as it passed.
>I was nobody's idea of a rebel, I just found the whole thing supremely
>-- odd.
>
>The incomprehension was on the other foot, so to speak, when I
>explained to young friends in China that the UK has no National Day in
>the style of that now celebrated in the PRC. 'But what's wrong with
>patriotism?' asked one, very sweetly... and no, I don't want to get
>into the ensuing discussion, it's all too depressing.

I don't know if it's still the practice, but when my wife and I went
to a movie in the UK in the early 70s, the audience stood and sang
something - GSTQ? - at the end of the picture.

I also remember the Irish singing something at closing time in the
pub. Can't remember the name of that one, either.


--


Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL
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