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Bereta_Eder
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Out of curiosity, could you write the name of your country and wether or not you're having school parades during your national holidays? School parades is where each school parades on the streets and the best student of each carries the flag.
Something like that.
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Bereta_Eder
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You can just write the name of your country and wether there is a school parade involving the flag during your national holidays. A simple yes or no would do. I'll explain when if I can get an article in english.
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Gangerolf
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huuhh
May 2001
time: 06:31
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Well I guess you could call them "school parades involving the flag".
google found some well-formulated info
quote:
CELEBRATE NORWAY'S CONSTITUTION DAY
17th of May - Syttende Mai
The 17th of May, Norwegian Constitution Day, is mainly the children’s day. Throughout the country children are parading to celebrate that Norway is an independent country. In contrast to many other countries that celebrate their constitution with military parades, the people of Norway have chosen to show their pride and hope for the future through their children.
Schoolchildren in the whole country are parading on the morning of the 17th of May, regardless of weather conditions, with the Norwegian flag in their hands. They walk behind colorful banners that represent either their school or their class. The 17th of May has always been celebrated this way, except during the second world war when nationalistic activities were forbidden by the Germans. In the major cities it is not unusual for the children's parade to be divided into several parades since there are so many participants.
In front of the parade you will find many large Norwegian flags, usually carried by scouts or older students. Most of the schools have their own school orchestra, playing great music in the parade. The children walk behind their school banners, shouting "Hurrah for the 17th of May", blowing horns and singing national songs.
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Bereta_Eder
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Alright, thanks, I'm covered
There is a controversy risen again about this in Greece because of the repeated refusal of a small remote community's parents association somewhere in Northern Greece to let a foreign pupil and best student in his school to be a flag carrier on the 28th because he doesn't have the Greek citizenship and, they say the flag is a national symbol. The law says that the best pupil, irrelevant of citizenship, will carry the Greek flag if he/she wants to. Actually it's not so much controversy but anger towards this community's parents association for trying to block him from being the flag carrier. All the other pupils who happen not to have the Greek citizenship and are the best pupils at their schools will get to raise the Greek flag, since all of them want to and noone in the school communities where they are objects.
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The Odysseas Tsenai case was characterized as an unacceptable intervention with racist characteristics, which cannot be accepted and has obstructed people who feel like Greeks to express themselves, by Government Spokesperson Christos Protopapas. Specifically, responding to related questions, Mr. Protopapas stressed that we must all condemn such phenomena and called all social and political powers to mobilize in order to stop and isolate unacceptable racist phenomena, because such behaviors befit Greece”.
Commenting on Mr. Pagalos' proposal on giving Od. Tsenai Greek citizenship and Mr. Constatopoulos' proposal for the formation of an inter-party committee on the issue, Mr. Protopapas characterized them as interesting proposals and he stressed that the government policy on the incorporation of immigrants into Greek society was known: “We have made the decision to incorporate economic refugees, who have stated their presence, to the Greek society and economy, that is why we gave them green cards and why we said they should work on equal terms with Greeks, their children go to Greek schools and receive healthcare in our hospitals. We either have to accept this and live together or we have to begin creating ghettos. |
Due to this controversy I was wondering what goes on in other countries.
And still do, so still waiting for more answers from other countries as well
Last edited by Bereta_Eder on 27-10-2003 at 06:27
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Bereta_Eder
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The PASOK's stance on this is well known. It could just force the Nea Mechanionia's parents association to accept the law - but you can create more of the negative effect by doing this. I'm sure you'll agree.
Also don't forget that this is the 2nd time this phenomenon has appeared in Nea Mechanionia. And the previous time there was no elections on the horizon.
So while I more than agree with you that PASOK's using it to get the right wing to fight itself, I think that this is not where the interest in this subject begins or ends.
And no, I don't agree with you that the only way to get rid of our racism and bigotry is to just see the flag as a piece of cloth. I also don't agree to abolish the custom, for many reasons and not ethnocentric in the slighest.
I'm interested in whether other countries have school parades involving flags. I think it might be interesting to know.
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Bereta_Eder
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Different countries, different routes.
I already knew that we are one of the few countries to have this custom. But it doesn't hurt to actually see what's going on beyond our borders and not just assume that we're unique in this and just scrap it or whatever.
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Bereta_Eder
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OK.
So we have:
No=US, Danemark, France (with some exceptions) South Korea.
Yes= Norway, Greece
What about the UK, Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Turkey and other countries which I know we have representatives here?!
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27-10-2003 04:05
(Diss hopes she is of legal age)
They're heavy, you have to walk more or less in line with the other flag bearers to your left and right. It's more fun to walk in the back with a smaller flag.
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