Posted on 10/06/2005 6:20:04 AM PDT by DogBarkTree
Screw the Mexican Flag BUMP!!
If they push to have the Mexican anthem played, there's nothing American about them. I include the school and it's administration with that statement.
No American should be punished in any way for not standing for the anthem of another nation being played in THIS country.
Geez!
I feel your pain...=).
No American should be punished in any way for not standing for the anthem of another nation being played in THIS country.
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Absolutely -- this PC crap has gone way too far. This IS AMERICAN, NOT FREAKIN MEXICO!!
Would a foreign national in our country, be expected to stand for our anthem?
I think courtesy should extend beyond national boundaries.
Huh? So what happens when you go to a hockey game and you stand while they play "O Canada."
Kinda sorta like a-hole.
You better believe it. Canada is a classic example of why this type of multi-cultural bullshit will eventually blow up in your face. The Froggies will never be satisfied, nor will they stop whinging, until all of Canada is parlay-vousing and they are fully in control of the levers of political power. Nip it in the bud now.
Absotively, posilutely! It is highly inappropriate to play a national anthem of another country expecting non-citizens to stand for the anthem unless it is out of respect for representatives of that country. Being as these kids are in the United States, they are hardly officially representing Mexico.
Reminds me of something that sticks in my craw. My office is next to a Mexican grocery store. Next to our private parking lot and behind the store is a forklift with an American flag tied to it as its roof. It doesn't look like a flag, it is a flag--tied at four corners, ragged, dirty, left outside in the junkie back area of this store lot.
My relations with the store are not good. I refuse to buy anything there since they had only Spanish-speaking employees and none even so much as tried to understand English. I speak a little Spanish but not enough to conduct business there. The store is located in Central California.
What would have happened had he booed?
No national anthem but the Star Spangled Banner should be played at our schools. If the school wanted to celebrate different cultures- Mexican, Austrian or Welsh or whatever fine. Have some different food, some music,discuss the countries' history, economics, etc. But learning about a country should not include putting it above the US.
Yes.
"...Bedard questioned this week whether the scales of cultural diversity may have tilted out of balance...."
That's a self-answering question.
"...There's absolutely no reason for an American in America to stand for another country's anthem, unless they are being paid to work in a diplomatic capacity...."
It's done before hockey and baseball games when the United States and Canadian anthems are played. Whether one stands during either is their choice. But, if the Mexican anthem was the only one played in this case, I have a real objection to it. This IS AMERICA and to have the anthem of the USA discarded in deference to multi-culturlaism(aka: PC), is wrong. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP! I applaud this student for holding his ground. He is someone that gets it.
I'll be in the minority here and dissend. It's absolutley disrespectful to sit down on another nation's national anthem It's akin to flag burning. Just think if this was the USA being honored in France and some dumb frog sat down on our anthem.
I bet you're saying this while eating Taco Bell and listening to salsa music.
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