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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
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I am in Australia and a citizen under the Crown (i.e. not a rebel like you lot). We don't go overboard with loyalty like you do in your country, however we allow people to fly the Australian flag in any which way they desire, even wearing it on Australia Day (when the British first landed here back in 1788).
We just have the good taste not to go crazy over it generally. Few houses fly it as a result, and we don't get upset so much about it as to tell people when they can or can't use it.
It's just a symbol after all. If you really want to get upset, get upset about the problems of your country and deal with those instead; make your country more than the sum of it's symbols.
Poverty and lack of education would be good things to begin with.