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This may not come as a surprise but Germany is neither doing flags, nor anthem singing or any kind of pledge.

The day begins with "Good morning" - "Good morning Ms/Mr X".

And being a secular country there is no prayer in school either (however there is religion as a school subject if you are a member of one of the major churches (+ sometimes Islam is offered as well)) or ethics if you are not.

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Germany is less surprising to me, given the history involved. Based on what I am looking into on Google Maps, however, it hardly seems to be a phenomenon confined to the US, and at least based on my spot checks it seems to be more common than not for public schools to display national flags.

>given the history involved.

It's almost like other countries could learn from that history of extreme nationalism. The US especially

We taught the lesson on this, didn't we?

What does that mean, exactly?

How many people alive today truly remember what it was like during WW2?

I would argue that Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union is actually what did them in, not the US invasion

You really think that the USSR of the early 1940s could have fought that era's Germany and Japan at once?

What about the comments by no less than Admiral Zhukov himself acknowledging that in his view, the USSR couldn't have defeated Germany without US assistance?

It wasn't about pure fighting ability. Germany overextended their supply by moving into the USSR which weakened them

But this is all beside the point of extreme nationalism being a bad thing

Flags are probably somewhat common and I'd say it's a part of US culture to dial these things up to 11. (This is not meant as a sentiment.)

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