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Well I've just read every comment on this thread and I'm relieved to realize that our recitation of our National Pledge of Allegience at every opportunity is in-fact seen as totally normal.
I can't tell you how much humor I found in this response to that comment. ๐
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance
Well... not my culture, I guess ๐คทโโ๏ธ
It was made to sell flags
It is not, but it's also hard to notice as a tourist. I've learnt that from here
I only really saw that in grade school. And it was a Red Scare thing. Super culty, but so is all the McCarthy stuff.
Do you ?
At a point I was travelling a lot to the US, the only time I heard the national anthem was before a Rodeo in Texas, and I never saw someone reciting the "pledge of allegience
Mostly in schools, so not something a traveller is likely to see
Yeees, totally normal and culty at all...