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(10-10-2017, 12:45 AM)Nately120 Wrote: I can't say, because the fact that we have a segment of the population and our president calling for negative consequences for people who don't stand during our anthem is a huge confounding variable when it comes to determining why people would stand or not stand in this country.  

We've taken a very specific aspect of patriotism and made it into the current gold-standard for patriotism in this country.  I never thought about not standing for the anthem, but I have to admit that I'm going to keep standing but I'm now looking around while the thing is playing and wondering how many people would make a point to ruin my life if I didn't.  It's very interesting, really.  Actually, I look right at the flag.  It's best not to deviate from the protocol at the moment.

I know I'm a bit biased because I was sent to a Catholic school as a kid and I was given the choice to pray and sing in church or explain to my parents why I had an F on my report card.  Some of my classmates felt the lord enter their bodies on a daily basis...I didn't.  Those lucky stiffs.

So in summation, when I watch soccer and I see the Europeans linking arms and singing their anthems with glee and gusto I assume they are doing so because they view patriotism as a means to unite where we seem to keep using it as an excuse to accuse each other of treason. 

Again, I'm approaching this as a marketing guy.

So you don't know if they view not standing when their Nation's Anthem is played is failing to show respect? 

Or is the answer Trump.