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Originally Posted by The Reaper
In most countries, I believe flying your flag like that over the rightful one would get your ass whipped and your business burned down.
TR
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TR, It's interesting you should mention this. My wife's a Japanese national. We had a recent conversation when in Japan a few months ago, that started out from my noticing, that, their country doesn't fly their flag as we do here. It's something that she didn't give much thought to when we're stateside, but once I brought it up, she agreed that Americans fly the flag almost everywhere under the sun. She also stated that, many immigrants fly the flags of their respective homelands as well, which, WOULD NOT BE TOLERATED IN JAPAN. i.e.; say we move to Japan, and I open up shop over there, which I can do legally since I'm now tied to Japan via my spouse (reverse immigration...you gotta love it!) there's no way that I would be permitted to display the American flag on/in/around my property over there. Period. I would be a resident "guest" there, and expected to fall in line. I'd likely ostercize myself, in an already foreigner unfriendly Japan and would face some sort of punishment from the antiquated legal courts over there. Incidently, many Japanese do not fly their own flag in the country, as it's still seen as a symbol of the war.
As for this particular incident, I found the video simultaneously funny yet disturbing to a certain extent. It was funny how the veteran (and good on him for doing what he did, regardless of a 15 mins of fame scenario) fumbled over his words in his immediate AAR. Oh, and his strut as he walked off from the scene was classic.
IMO, the hispanic business owner was probably attempting to show some form of "solidarity" for his fellow nationals, amongst all the raids that ICE has been carrying out. He obviously, and this is where the quality of the stock he came from may/may not have been lacking, gave his plan a nano-second of thought regarding counter moves and backlash. One can only come to 1 of 2 conclusions here. A: he isn't an intelligent individual and didn't think past the actions he was carrying out. B: he did think about some form of retaliation and simply said, "fuck it, I'm gonna do it anyways". Either way, he didn't make an intelligent decision, and he sure as hell didn't defend his decision, as far as for the after action, action, that I witnessed. In theory, one could say, good idea...wrong approach.
I did find this trend of events disturbing though. I recently heard a story in the news a while back, where a Vietnamese individual was elected to some form of Government in San Jose, California...I want to say that it was a Mayoral position, but I could stand corrected on that. Anyways, the City had received some press because it was now going to be a possibility to fly that elected official's flag of their homeland, alongside that of the State and American flag.
Keeping in mind the 10 commandments which were removed from a venue of Government, how can it be OK for a foreign flag to fly at another. I'm curious as to some of your opinions, on that issue?
Of course, also keeping in mind that California often plays by it's lone interpretation of the Constitution.
