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Originally Posted by Jerrek
Well, if your opinion is that flag waving, singing national anthems, and pledging allegiance does nothing for social cohesion, then why are you objecting to it? You're saying exactly opposite of what Sociable is saying.
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What you quoted was in reference to the suggestion that pledging etc solves social problems, and I pointed out that america has the same social problems as the UK, and in some cases worse problems than the UK.
This then led to the point that there is a difference between people in urban and rural areas.
Sorry that you didn't understand that bit form the posts, hopefully now you do, and can see that this had nothing to do with what sociable was saying.
Now, sociable was saying that it can cause alienation, rather than trying to build a better world, it promotes the idea that your own nation is fine (even though it doesn't acutally make a difference to the social problems that all nations have) and so you end up not giving a damn about the rest of the world (as you have expresed) and such shortsightedness eventually catches up with you, as the world is linked (never heard of the world recession?)