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** This wasn't really a problem until about 1948, when Southern Democrats went renegade and formed the States' Rights (or "Dixiecrat") party and adopted the "Stars and Bars" as their unofficial emblem. It was arguably the first time in modern history that Confederate sympathizers had received so much media attention, and the coverage caused the flag to be strongly correlated with segregation in the minds of most other Americans.
** The flag's reputation is not helped by the fact that many American Neo-Nazi groups use it as a symbol. Once you extend the analogy beyond racial matters, this just becomes silly: the industrialized totalitarian ethos of Nazism doesn't mesh very well with the agrarian libertarian Southern ideal.
** Then, again the 'confederate' flag used by those groups (the kind seen on the
* The Romans did not like Christianity one bit. It wasn't fear of something new or contempt for the poor that made Tacitus call the Christians "notoriously depraved"; it was mainly their refusal to perform sacrifices, which to a Roman was the equivalent of modern-day flag-burning. Or worse: many Romans believed that if humans failed to perform sacrifices the gods would destroy the earth via earthquakes, volcanoes, plagues, and other disasters. They also assumed that Christians believed that their religion was ancient and thought it ''hilarious'' to mock and belittle them on the issue.
** The Romans also felt that Jews and Christians were probably the most intolerant religion ever, since they did not accept other gods as real.
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* The concept of freedom of speech is also a source of dissonance, with the First Amendment in the U.S. mentioned above giving everyone the right (with very few exceptions, like obscenity, which is rarely enforced, and treason) to say pretty much anything they want, even things that will incite racial hatred. In other places, governments can clamp down on things like racist speech, and others do away with the concept of freedom of speech entirely.
* Dia de los Muertos ("Day of the Dead") is seen as onerous in the US (at best, a very bizarre tradition) - skulls used to portray the dead are seen as insulting in the US.
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