Why Do Americans Value A Piece Of Cloth So Highly?

@2boredEPers You know nothing about me to be able to say that.

I based that on my hunch that you did zero research or fact gathering to try to find out why Americans do love the flag so much or to arm yourself with a better argument. Instead you went completely impulsive with your emotions and said “it’s just a piece of cloth”, and are now engaged in multiple back and forths with name calling and putting an entire country down. And the thing with the native Americans .........you do know in the history of the world no one has been more colonizing and savage than the brits

@2boredEPers I'm well aware, thanks. ☺

@2boredEPers yes, but to be fair, there were worse and more savage settlers than the Brits - the Belgians in Africa, for instance, or the Maori on Chatham Islands, who slaughtered and enslaved the Moriori. Māori kept Moriori slaves until 1863. After the killings, Moriori were forbidden to marry Moriori, or to have children with each other. All became slaves of the Māori until the 1860s. The Spanish were worse in Latin America too. And the British brought good governance to regions they controlled, like India and Africa. I have met both Indians and Africans who are grateful for what the British brought them and grateful they were not colonized by the Belgians or French.

But no country or people anywhere that I know of is without blood on its hands. No need to single out one for abuse or to wallow in the kind of cultural self-loathing so common in Europe today and among liberal elites in the US.

@SW-User No self-loathing amongst people i know, ta.

@MaryJo1996 glad to hear they are not ashamed of their country's flag, anthem, culture, or traditions. So many Brits i know are, not to mention Germans, of course