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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
I feel like the premise of this thread isn't really about less or more national pride than it is whether there is a culture of flying a national flag at every single "national" building, or "quasi-national" buildings like schools,etc., or at private buildings like businesses and/or peoples homes.
As for the Japanese not showing outward displays of national pride? Ever been to or seen a figure skating competition, literally of any kind? It's like the arena of the rising sun. And for the the Germans, watched the World Cup? They don't seem shy about Deutschland uber Alles when it comes to futbol.
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So, maybe, it's different for Japanese in Japan or Germans in Germany if we are talking about Japanese-Americans or German-Americans in the US hesitant to display the association with their old country as connoting past/foreign regimes given their own experience and relations with the home/ancestral country.
It seems fine for some groups (in the US, not sure about elsewhere) to display some flags without making a political statement. Italian restaurants show Italian flags without making anything political about Italy, the country, salient to others. Not so much for say Russia, China, or maybe Japan and Germany, so perhaps that's why those groups' descendants in the US don't fly their flags much.