Yeah but the pledge in Japan is rad

May your reign Continue for a thousand, eight thousand generations, Until the tiny pebbles Grow into massive boulders Lush with moss

As an Americam who was subjected to the pledge in highschool, I thought the same and refused to stand for it starting in middle school. The school cant force you to do the pledge of allegiance, but they dont exactly tell students…or teachers.

Every school year id run into a teacher who took sitting during the pledge to be the same as taking a dump on the flag and send me to the front office only for them to send me right back to class because im within my rights to sit. One teacher in particular angrily “lectured” me, a 16 year old, about how her husband served over seas and me sitting is the same as telling him to get fucked more or less. By my junior year the office staff started making excuses as to why i needed to stand like “teachers check dress code during the pledge” or “they check attendance”, but I continued to sit anyway since these excuses were always bullshit.

When I was in highschool I always sat because fuck the us government, but also, I agree, that the pledge is really creepy. One guy who sat next to me in French class actually punched me in the jaw one time because he was upset that I never stood.