[ SECRET POST #1990 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1990 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Calvin and Hobbes]


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03.
[Golden Sun]


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04.
[Downton Abbey]


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05.
[Beyond: Two Souls]


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06.
[Veep]


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07.
[John Cooper Clarke]


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08.
[Kristen Stewart]


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09.
[A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones]


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10.
[The Social Network]


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11.
[Ray Bradbury]


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12.
[Protomen]


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13.
[Hamish & Andy]


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14.
[Falling Skies]


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15.
[Hetalia]


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16.
[Legend of Korra]


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17.
[Dragon Age: Origins]


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18.
[Minecraft]


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19.
[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable]


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[Avengers]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 025 secrets from Secret Submission Post #284.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Lol, seriously? Why? *not American*

[kallanda_lee]

Not sure if this is what anon meant, but...often when I meet someone who's an outspoken patriot they're American. I mean, in a lot of countries, patriotism really isn't so big s in America. It's not that they don't like their country, it's just that the mentality/mindset is very different. Like I've heard of kids pledging allegiance to the flag at school - which sounds really, really weird if you're not from an American cultural context.

[broadwaybabe11.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting. I'm American, and it never occurred to me that pledging the allegiance would come across as odd to non-Americans.
(I have some problems saying the pledge because of the "One Nation under God," part though... And I also feel more proud of being Appalachian than being American, although that may sound odd. I'm probably doing it wrong.)

[(Anonymous)]

do you ever see, in american media, depictions of north koreans en masse (perhaps classes of school children) weirdly/ritualistically/brainwashedly lauding their government, or perhaps get told that things like this happened under communism in the soviet union or china? the impression those depictions want to create for you, is a little how your daily pledging allegiance in schools looks from the outside :p

[(Anonymous)]

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Whenever I see this thing in American movies, it looks like... some sort of tribal stuff to me? Like, a village of hunter-gatherers pledging allegiance to a totem pole or something...
(This picture is probably wrong on a million levels and offensive as hell, and I'm sorry for that. It's simply how it looks to me.)

[(Anonymous)]

Norwegians, Canadians, the Vietnamese, the Irish, and New Zealanders are all highly patriotic. I'd assume that you just have a greater chance of running into a patriotic American due to sheer numbers (even Canada's population is a ninth of the US).

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I have to ask -- where is this sample from? Your personal experience? Can you cite a source? I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just really curious about how you came up with that particular array of countries.

[(Anonymous)]

Not the previous anon but there are often polls like this one done by UoC's National Opinion Research Center: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/98/980630.patriotism.shtml

[kallanda_lee]

I never said there is no other nation that is ever patriotic, but it really stood out for me when I visited the USA and sometimes when I meet people from there (though travelers are often a different breed altogether). On the internet, I realize the sheer numbers might have something to do with it, however that doesn't mean the trend isn't there. And honestly, I've met some Irish (Irish Irish, not American Irish) and I found their patriotism to work in very different ways. A lot of it, to me, seemed about differentiating from the English and not wanting to be clumped together with them. Also, the catholic versus protestant thing.

[(Anonymous)]

The Catholic vs Protestant thing is more Northern Ireland, I've very very rarely heard it in the Republic.

[aiffe]

American here, and you know what, that skeeved me the fuck out as a kid. I refused to do it and got in trouble. D:

I'm not patriotic at all. I actually sort of assumed that only the ignorant Americans were patriotic. I mean seriously, look at our history, we don't have a lot to be proud of.

Also, I spent a few years in Canada, and Canadians crack me up because they think they're so much better than the US because they're nicer and more humble. They clearly do not know their own history. When I start telling them how their country is pretty fucked up too, they get all butthurt and don't want to hear it. I actually think Canadians are less aware than Americans of why they really shouldn't be all that proud of their country. I mean, look at Stephen Harper saying that Canada has no history of colonialism. >___________>

The rest of the world seems to agree. Say you're American online, and people automatically think, "Man, what an ignorant a-hole." (Someone even said they hated all Americans on this thread!) But say "I'm in Canada" and let them assume that means you're Canadian, and you're treated as "cute."