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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

We had a ceremony every monday morning and friday evening were the whole school divided into each class stood at attention and said a pledge of allegiance followed by the national hymn in Turkey.

This was because we were in a private school where the rules were more relaxed. Public schools did it twice daily.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I was in Turkish school we used to sing the istiklal marşı to the decapitated head of Ataturk like he was a god. A god who secularized the country. I was surrounded by some of the most miliyetci fascists I'd ever met in that school. I stopped going because of the nationalism, and my turkish got worse.

My ex is an Italian who grew up in Germany, and she went to an Italian school where they had a similar kind of fascism going on. She stayed, but not her brothers. Her Italian is fantastic.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah standing in the middle of a whole school shouting "How happy for whoever can say 'I am turkish'" as a foreigner was a mixed bag of feelings even though the people typically where kemalist

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

that's the thing, the school had a large kemalist majority, but they stayed quiet and let the fascists push them around and indoctrinate their kids

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

We do not, and we unironically have a parade about how cool WW1 was.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

In Australia I only remember singing the national anthem at school assemblies about once a week

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah same. Sometimes there'd be a special assembly and we'd have to stand and sing for that too, but typically it was a once a week thing and no one was really forcing us to sing, just stand.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Def do the national anthem in kkkanada

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I live in an As Left As They Come area, so we do a land acknowledgement before the national anthem. It's very stupid and patronizing. 10/10 lefty-left extremely-left leftmaxxing, for sure.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The reactionary hellhole school i went to did the same thing

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not in Wales (although the UK government has floated the idea of a pledge of allegiance a couple of times). What they did do was make everyone recite the Lord's Prayer. No-one was exempt, not the handful of Muslims, not the sizable portions of atheists, and not me with whatever made up religion I'd claimed I was in this week (I was deep in new atheism and would probably've become a misogynist if I hadn't grown up to be a woman).

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In kkkanada we had the anthem played in class every day.

It was a half-french half-english version, but on Fridays in elementary school we had the fun one that had the acapella quartet doo-wop guys recording.

In high school if you were late to school, you weren't allowed to walk to class while the anthem was playing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

How many countries even have a "Pledge of Allegiance"?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Many countries still do this. Democracies, by the way.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

lol most local government meetings (in red counties) still start with the pledge of allegiance AND a prayer

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah

Nazi Germany

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

In one school I did the national anthem and the Lord's prayer every day, when I moved to another school I was a little confused when we didn't do the Lord's prayer but we still sang the national anthem every day

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I bet they didn't have the part of the lord's prayer about forgiving debtors

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We did the national anthem once in a while here in Canada but no, nothing like your thing

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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