Sometimes it feels like in the US, being fluent in any language other than English is unpatriotic. Blue America makes exception for French
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Hmm. Thinking of this some more, this is truly weird. No other country I've visited to has nationalism so reducible to language chauvinism.
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but language is generally how you preserve culture really in any country. It's not really a bad thing.
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. not true. India has ~30. Even tiny Switzerland has 4. Most have at least 2. National identity can have deeper base than lang
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USA Flag Cult is interesting. We brainwash our kids to worship flag, other countries brainwash not to
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I propose we all paint stars on our bellies. That way we Americans can be star-bellied sneetches 😀
In Helsinki last summer, had interesting convo about flags & patriotism w/Finn, Germans and other euro
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