In this section, I keep seeing people who are whining about people waving foreign flags or displaying them on their car and suchlike. These people seem to feel that anyone who displays a foreign symbol or flag is anti-American. They also insist that anyone using foreign symbols or flags is an illegal alien, but I know for a fact that many legal immigrants and many people who were born in the U.S. display foreign flags. So I was wondering, do you actually think it should be illegal to display foreign symbols or flags? If so, wouldn't that be a violation of free speech and freedom of expression rights?
2007-11-30 07:08:18 · 28 answers · asked by vh 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I am so sick of hearing how supposedly only illegal immigrants display foreign flags. In my area, ther is a lot of Swiss heritage, so some people display Swiss flags. These people were probably born in the U.S. Many legal immigrants like to display flags from their native countries, as do people who were born in the U.S. but are descended from a foreign country. Why should anyone care? It's not like a foreign flag is hurting anyone. And I don't see how it is so disrespectful to the U.S. to display foreign flags. What makes the U.S. such a wonderful country is that this is a FREE COUNTRY, with Freedom of Speech rights. Here in the U.S., people have the right to display foreign flags and symbols if the want to. If you ask me, the real anti-Americans are the people who want to take these rights away and turn the U.S. into a radical nationalist country.
2007-12-01 02:08:20 · update #1
To SR:
What exactly is your point about sudanese laws regarding foreign flags? Do you actually think that the death penalty shoudl be used on anyone who displays foreign flags and symbols? Or are you trying to make outlawing foreign flags and symbols look good, by comparing it to shooting anyone who uses foreign symbols?
2007-12-01 02:12:02 · update #2
To Margrete: Not everyone who waves a Mexican flag in the U.S. is doing so in protest. You must be one of those racists who despises all Mexicans just because some of them have immigrated into the U.S. illegally. The bottom line is that the U.S. is a free country, with Freedom of Speech rights. That means that people have the right to display foreign flags if they want to, and that's the way it should be.
2007-12-05 09:04:49 · update #3
oh my god! here we go again! what the heck happened to a little thing called rights?
there is nothing wrong with displaying a foreign flag.
they are idiots!
my family are german..if i displayed my countrys' flag.. should i be persecuted? absolutely not! imbeciles
sure.. lets just go ahead and do away with the constitution as a whole...
2007-11-30 07:13:03 · answer #1 · answered by carol p 3 · 2⤊ 7⤋
As mentioned above the stars and strips must be flown higher than any other flag that flies on the same pole.....it is actually the law. That said. I person or person can and should be able to display any flag from any country that they want. They may also burn, cut, saw, wipe, or otherwise harm any flag that they choose. While it may be offensive and completely deplorable to some, and life threatening to others. They have that right, as they should. Still, the people who would want to do bodily harm to those that would burn there flag are perfectly within there rights as well......so long as they don't actually do any harm, but as we know, that is often not the case. I would suggest that burning a flag as a form of protest is about as far as a person could get from doing any good for whatever cause that they are for, and would more often than not take credibility away rather than give it.
2007-11-30 07:55:56 · answer #2 · answered by TLB 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
NO, it IS NOT illegal and should not be so.
Unfortunately, folks who didn't know any better rioted around in the street demaning rights they think they have ...and many of this group have not come here legally.
Americans resent that behavior two fold ...both for the illegal immigration as well as the gall to strut around in public advertising it and demanding more.
Using their flag as a banner to celebrate the outrage feeds fuel to the resentment fire.
What is bad about all this is that it drags into question what should be free by those who RESPECT any given country and their patrionage/patriotism and puts one country or group against another.
Las time I saw folks waving their countries' flags around ...was when they took victory on the battlefield, over and opposing force. It can kinda be understood as a war like gesture in the worse case scenario.
This freedom and many more things are darkened or obscured by the illegal act of breaking USA laws ...and then having the hutspa, to brag about it and demand more!
2007-11-30 08:41:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Clearly there are good and bad reasons to display a foreign flag on one's house. I alternate displaying the American, Canadian, British, and French flags because we have only one flag mount. It all began when my wife and I visited Toronto a few weeks after 9/11. As we traveled through Canadian towns we saw many American flags displayed on houses there. After that terrible attack on our country, it was very moving to see such a show of solidarity by Canadians for our country. Soon afterward I began to display a Canadian flag alternately with our American flag. In time I added the British and French flags to the rotation in honor of the long friendship among the four countries and partially in honor of my ethnic background. Oh yes, we have two more flags on order representing my wife's heritage. If anyone sees this as un-American, they are profoundly mistaken.
2014-07-31 12:48:29 · answer #4 · answered by MICHAEL 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But it is wrong to display a foreign flag (or, indeed, a state flag) at a height above the American Flag. For instance, at the UN building in NY, all the flags of the various nations are displayed on thier own poles, each at precisely the same height.
And, yes, it is a matter of freedom of speach. Aliens (legal or otherwise) do have the right to express thier love of country by flying the flag - or even thier hatred of America by burning the stars and stripes.
2007-11-30 07:28:31 · answer #5 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I believe the feelings of frustration that many of us Americans feel about the whole foreign flag subject is the disrespectful manner in which many people display the foreign nations flag. For example I live in Houston and I constantly see homes and sometimes business in which they fly the Mexican Flag high above the U.S. flag and that is like a slap in the face. I just want to march up to them and ask if you feel more proud to be Mexican than you do to be American then why did you decide to come here? How do you think I would be thought of if I marched around Mexico waving the U.S. flag in everybody's face demanding all kinds of rights and I'm a uninvited guest in that country? Answer me that!
2007-11-30 07:37:42 · answer #6 · answered by Regina 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
No, of course not. I am curious about one thing though. I wonder how many of the people who think it's an outrage to fly another countries flag in the US, leave American flags on their cars until they fade and fall apart. I saw that happen to a lot of flags people put up in the wake of 9/11.
2007-11-30 09:11:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Should it be illegal to display foreign flags or symbols? HELL NO!
USA is comprised of different nationalities having their own flags. USA & it's flag are both beautiful in the sense that they are a product of the rest of the world.
I believe those that are whining and pissed are those that are so washed up that cannot identify themselves to their roots as others can. I am 5th generation here in States. Origin: Mexico. Something we still display is the Mexican flag, symbols. We still speak spanish as well. We know where we came from. With that said, I am proud to be born in the U.S. I have a US flag as well.
Those that are whining need to control their own world & stop giving a rats *** what other people do in theirs.
2007-11-30 08:10:53 · answer #8 · answered by elbanda 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You say you see that much on here? Not likely. Sounds like a strawman argument to me.
Now, if you said that people got upset when illegals parade on our streets waving their flags and telling us that hell, no they won't go, that would be true.
If you said that people were upset when schools or others put foreign flags at a position superior to the US flag (an act of disrespect), then that would be true.
But I've not seen any of what you claim.
Unless it was whining about the Confederate battle flag some folks display, which happens a lot.
2007-11-30 07:18:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
My mom taught in the Sudan for about 5 years while I was in elementary school. It is a shooting offense to fly or even show a foreign flag or have a visible national symbol even inside the house we lived in. I know this for a fact because they shot one of the other teachers for having a bowl with the Danish Royal coat of arms on it. His housekeeper reported him and they came one morning and dragged everyone out in the street and mad us watch while the forced him to kneel in the road and shot him in the back of the head.
If you wave your foreign flag in my face once to often I flash back to that and want to do it to you. This is MY country and you had better be a courteous guest or become an American (that means you speak the language, fly the flag, and adopt the symbols of America as your own.) Otherwise kindly take the first bus, train, boat, or plane out of this country.
2007-11-30 08:05:07 · answer #10 · answered by Coasty 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Who is going to decide if a flag or symbol is illegal or anti-American?
Why can I not fly my home country flag along side my American flag? I am proud of both of them. I am proud of where I am from and where I live.
If this was the case then it is a restriction on my freedoms as a person in this country.
2007-11-30 08:04:48 · answer #11 · answered by Mama~peapod 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋