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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the take away here is that if I go to another country and I find any customs or practices creepy, weird or uncomfortable, that country should stop doing them to accommodate me.  Got it.

At least you've got American Entitlement™ down pat.[/quote]

[b]I guess I missed the posts where people said that they are immigrants and want the county schools to stop doing the pledge of allegiance because they think it's weird.[/b]

Also, one of the great things about America is, or at least used to be, that people who became American citizens through immigration are just as American as people who become American citizens through birth. And you agree that people get to criticize their country, right? "America, love it or leave it" went out in the 1960s - probably before you were born.[/quote]

I guess you did.

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[b]I was also not born here and neither were my children and I find it weird too[/b], I'm sorry. We love it here, we (the adults) feel allegiance to the ideas set out in the pledge (not including the god part which feels unnecessary to me), but I don't expect my children to feel that when they can barely understand the words. They learned about the pledge in pre-k and learned the words then, and I'm fine with that, [b]but I would be very uncomfortable with them having to recite it every day as a ritual.[/b] If when they are old enough to understand it they wish to say it, then that is fine with me. But mindlessly reciting a promise every day that they cannot possibly understand feels really uncomfortable to me, and similar to how I would feel if they were made to say the Lord's Prayer every day.

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I'm that PP and I should make it clear - I don't want the country to stop anyone doing anything. Our school doesn't require it and that's something I'm happy about. As an immigrant and now citizen, I'd like to think that I'm allowed an opinion on this, and that I'm now as American as anyone else here. [/quote]

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