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I mean, people live in authoritarian countries and it feels very normal. I grew up in PRC (for the first decade of my life, at least), and I didn't feel like there was any danger. Sure, school is so weird with national anthems, they do those ceremonies where they put the "red scarf" for like 1st graders (see: Young Pioneers of China) but like, it just feels normal. I didn't even care about the "Patriotism" thing, I jusr hate school yard gatherings (same with the auditorium gathering in the US).

I mean, when I came to the US. I notice they do the pledge thing and like, it just felt normal.

I thought: Every countries does this? Right? I've been to two countries already, and Patriotism (aka nationlism, but I was taught its "Patriotism") is just a normal thing, right?

But then I go on Reddit and Europeans say they don't have obsessive nationalism.

Like... most people have lives in monarchies throught history, across the world. You can't talk shit about the monarch, or they chop your head off. It's been the norm for most of civilization. People through history just accepted the monarchy as the norm. People before the french revolution would never though that most monarchies would fall, they just accepted monarchism.