I’m a Canadian. The answer is no, no they don’t. Only thing students have to do is stand up and listen to the Canadian national anthem. Don’t even have to sing it, just listen to it.
I'm a Indian. We sing our National Anthem every day in school but we aren't forced to do so, we do it by ourselves. The respect to the country comes from inside and not by such stupid stuff!
I'm also Indian and IDK if every school does this but in my school, after the national anthem we were supposed to say a pledge which was mandatory on official papers but wasn't really enforced. It just went like "India is my country, all Indians are my brothers and sisters, I love my country" etc etc
I feel like the pledge of allegiance shouldn’t be forced upon kids. But important to realize and to keep in mind that we are very lucky to be in a free country, and those who fought for our freedom definitely deserve a thank you and some appreciation
As an American it’s weird that we hold freedom of speech as something so important and then people like this teacher enforce stupid rules like this. I never really like the pledge of allegiance but even if I did I wouldn’t force anyone else to do it.
I'm from Italy and no we don't pledge the flag ever. I mean it's illegal to tear it or to damage it in general but other than that we don't care about it, and we italians certainly love our country.
Here in Philippines, the school requires each students to attend a flag ceremony every Monday to sing our national anthem and pledge of allegiance. In college, we even have a prerequisite subject where we have to memorize our constitution preamble to pass the subject 💁🏻♂️ we’re not even attending a law school and its just a minor subject.
I’m Welsh. Who would do something like this? Why would you pledge your allegiance yourself to your flag like a cult? That’s not a thing over here in Wales and I’m glad!
I am from the UK and we basically do nothing of that sort, no singing the anthem at the start of school, no listening to it and no talking about it. When we get to school we just sit in our seats and get on with the day
Then how do you learn your anthem and pledge? We do it as a requirement to not mess the lyrics. Just the ones who show real interest know the lyrics or it's totally a ward thing?
@Rosa Villanueva we don't need to if we don't want to, and doing that will have nothing to do with any future jobs, so it's useless, and if you want to learn it then you can, in your own house instead.
I'm mexican, and the thing gets tricky here, we are expected to attend the "honores a la bandera" we are asked to sing the national anthem and show respect to the flag, but we only do it on Monday morning.
As an half italian half Paraguayan raised in italy, i can say that we do sing the national anthem sometimes bu aren’t forced to, we do it because we genuinely love our country
I'm also Australian and tbh I think there'd be nation-wide riots if they tried to make us do something like this in any school. it's super weird to us and seems very indoctrination-y.
@@SupSaffron I understand that, believe me i do. Respecting those who fought for what they believe in is important. It’s just the that’s it’s presented is really weird. It’s just this chant that you have to preform (depending on the school) every day. Even if you aren’t forced to participate some will most certainly look down on you if you don’t
@@SupSaffron but did they really fight for your country? i don't think America has ever been invaded. and isn't it supposed to be more a sign of respect to your country and not the soldiers? where did the military come in to this?
I’m Australian and I didn’t even know they have to do that in school… it seems insane to me. At schools here, we only have to sing the national anthem at occasional assemblies, but we aren’t forced to.
In America it isn't even something we are forced to do٫ its just something that happens every morning. The teacher in this video is actually violating the first amendment of our constitution by trying force the kid to say the pledge.
Yes in Nigerian schools immediately we sing the national anthem we say the pledge. Everybody does it we've done it so much that it doesn't mean more than just words now
I'm from the Philippines and we do this every morning. We call it "the flag ceremony". We sing our national anthem then we do the pledge of allegiance. That's why every Filipino knows the words to our national anthem and pledge of allegiance.
I am an Indian. Even in the most nation loving strict schools like Kendriya Vidyalaya, Military Schools, they absolutely don't force the students to take our national pledge. But yeah the national anthem is compulsory.
Hey, here down south in Tamilnadu we pledge atleast once a week in common assemblies. I think that we are forced to pledge allegiance. Not daily tho. Also Indians are everywhere dude! What are we even doing here 😂😜
Im from India, and we do pledge here every morning but, the pledge itself is not only all about loving your country but its mostly to say that we will respect everyone and and treat everyone kindly.
@@colesuqs India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters I pledge to pay respect to my parents and my teacher classmates and all elders and treat everyone with Courtsey and so on
I am Ghanaian. In Ghana, we sing a song we are taught in like kindergarten and we don’t have to sing and we don’t have to do it anytime after. When they call for the Pledge of Allegiance I silently recite either that song, the Ghanaian national anthem, or “Allez Paris Saint-Germain!”.
I'm Italian and I was born in Germany and I live there...in Italy and Germany there isn't anything like this! We don't sing an anthem and we don't play it either. The teacher enters the class and greets the students and students greet the teacher and the lessons begin.
Im Singaporean, and yes, we listen/sing to the national anthem and then say the pledge. We dont really have to speak during anything, just put our hands on our hearts, but yeah. We do it. As far as I know.
Correct I am also from Germany and it would be very strange if someone did something like that, I always thought the pledge of allegiance in America was a bit strange because you had to do it nearly everywhere! In grocery stores, at the beginning of American football games, at the beginning of school. I never really understood it. Sure, it’s nice to show you appreciate your country, but everyday? I don’t mean it’s not nice to appreciate your country, but I just think it’s a bit much having to do it everyday.
@@thecaeser it’s just in schools where they do it. They don’t pledge in grocery stores at all, and they do the national anthem at games, not the pledge
In the Philippines, it is very common for us to stand up and put your hand on your heart. We do this in certain events in schools. But I never saw anyone be mad at it and is forced to do it though it is probably required for us during morning routine aka monday in my school. ❤️
I am Australian, I can confirm that we don’t pledge our country but in primary school we sing the national anthem, high school in some places and in sport events. That’s it.
I can confirm too, in Australia we only sing a national anthem during important occasions. Primary schoolers and High schoolers aren't pressured to do it either.
By your logic a person should be allowed to murder, r*pe, rob, assault and not face the consequences of his actions? No one have the freedom to do everything. Freedom exists but it’s not freedom absolutism.
@@Raspberries9372 There is absolute freedom, absolute control and a perfect balance. This is an absolute control to make kids pledge allegiance to a fuckin flag!
I'm brazilian. And, at least where I live, we don't worship our country that much, of course there's patriotism and we decorate the anthem as kids, but it's not on a daily basis we show our love and respect for the country. Only in military schools, and we make a lot of fun of them for their methodic ways.
Pra mim tbm, a gente mal faz isso, estranho q os americanos ficam fazendo isso todo o dia Eu não gosto mt disso mas se fosse todo o dia seria MUITO chato
Sim verdade, por aqui a gente só canta o hino nacional quando crianças na escola, mas ninguém é obrigado a fazer isso, a maioria fazia porque queria cantar o hino, esse povo dos USA são extremos demais as vezes
I’m Venezuelan, but currently live in the US. I can’t explain how confused I was when I saw everyone stand up, put their hand to their chest and pledge their allegiance. In Venezuela, every Monday they would take all classes of the school to the courtyard and we sung our national anthem, of course you didn’t have to if you didn’t want to but you still stood in lines with the rest of the kids.
I’m from the UK and we do not pledge for our country although if it’s an important thing to do with the royal family then it’s normally on every radio station (BBC,ITV etc.)
We’re not asked, it’s California, we’re a melting pot, but we’re still mostly expected to at least acknowledge the pledge is happening. Do most people stand up? Yeah. Does everyone? Sometimes.
I'm from Poland, and I never had to do that. Only thing we do is standing up and sing anthem on national holidays, and ps. Poland is very patriotic country
I'm Nigerian and yes, it's normal here for students and pupils to sing the national anthem and state the pledge every morning, in both public and private schools.
I’m South African, and all we do on a Monday is pray (My school is christian). But we only do something similar to this on a important sports event like a rugby match.
I’m from the Philippines, and we only have flag ceremonies every Monday morning for the national anthem, panatang makabayan (kinda like the pledge of alliegance), the school song, and the prayers. We’re not even required to recite any of them. We just have to attend for those 10 minutes and that’s all.
Yeah in elementary in my school we do the flag ceremony everyday but in high school we only do it every monday and we dont even say it we just pretend that we do
New Zealand here! No, we don’t “pledge allegiance to our flag”. As other people have said, it sounds ridiculous. The closest thing I ever got to that was singing our national anthem every Friday, but I feel that’s a bit more fair. Plus, we only do it for important occasions at college.
As a Canadian, I always thought that was messed up when I heard americans do this. But we do have to stand for the anthem at school, but not say anything
That’s ironic because some of the most obnoxiously patriotic and nationalistic people I’ve met were Canadian, moreso than a lot of Americans. Like, a huge central part of Canadian identity is literally focused around not being American, resulting in some pretty militant nationalists overcompensating for a lack of uniqueness, i.e. an inferiority complex.
Acá en el salvador solo se dice el himno a la bandera en días patrios pero oí que en los ochentas habían escuelas en donde se decía a Darío. No se si todavía hay escuelas que lo hagan asi.
In Sweden we absolutely do not pledge allegiance to our flag. It sounds like a ridiculous idea to basically every person I've ever met. As in other European countries, we occasionally sing the national anthem on special occasions, but in my experience many people don't even know the lyrics to it.
This all seems so weird for me. I'm from the Netherlands and we don't have to do that of anything like that at all. We don't have to listen to the national anthem, we don't have to honor a flag and we absolutely didn't have to do this at school. And while it is not respectful, it is also not illegal to destroy the flag, no punishment at all. I luckily can't even imagine to have to go through all of that each day...
German here. Do you know how I learned the lyrics of the anthem? I googled it as an adult 😂 But we also usually don't have flags in our classrooms and our national holiday isn't that kind of a big deal either anymore. Here you literally have to search for flags (German ones at least) in the open.
As an Australian, we don't pledge our flag. The closest to us to pledge our flag is singing the national anthem in an assembly or a special day for our country. Edit: Thanks for all the likes!🎉🎉🎉
I live here, but I don’t pledge allegiance. I’m disappointed in this country. As I always said; I’m not standing for this country until there *IS* “Liberty and Justice” *for ALL.*
In Germany, nobody is pressurized to stand for the pledge and we can continue on with what we do. Plus, Germans have other ways to express their love for the country. The national anthem is sung at very special events, and we have Oktoberfest to cherish our culture. Americans have something going on- Love your videos.
In our school we say the pledge everyday except saturdays where we dont even speak we just stand there and listen while someone reads out the constitution of india 🇮🇳
Even I'm from India. Usually they make us do like a prayer but it's not something that anyone takes seriously. Wanting to pay respect to your country comes from more than just a pledge.
I'm an American and I see some kids not doing the pledge in the morning and it got me thinking about it, and honestly every time I hear "please stand for the pledge of allegiance" immediately I stand up, it feels strange when I think about it.
One day during middle school, a friend of mine would stand up, put her hand on her heart, but wouldn’t say the words. The “popular girls” I guess you could call them, got pissed at her for it. That friend was normally quiet, never talked during class, and never did much inside school. Yet those kids attacked her for not saying some words. After that, I just stand up, not say the words or move my hand to my heart. People shouldn’t be attacked or humiliated because they didn’t pledge their cult-ish loyalty to the country.
@@CC-si3crI love that you’re talking out of your ass to a stranger about a situation you could not know less about considering neither of us were there.
I’m from Australia. We don’t pledge our allegiance to our flag. We only sing or pledge allegiance to the flag on a special occasion, awards ceremony or an international match. This doesn’t make you Americans weird it just shows us how connected you guys are to your country but the teacher did not have to force the kid to stand up. It is his decision wether to stand up or not.
I was born in Brazil and raised in America. In Brazil we don’t do anything similar in our schools. I did the pledge of allegiance every day in school in America and don’t think it’s a bad thing. However there was at least always someone who didn’t partake and everyone including the teacher respected there decision to not stand. It’s fine if wanna do it and it’s fine if you don’t. At the end of the day we all love our country flaws and all.
I’m Serbian and we only have to sing it at the start of every school year, but we aren’t forced and my class loves singing it. Sometimes, in music class if we have some time left, we will sing it because we want to. Great video Ray as always!
I’m from Australia and we don't ever “pledge allegiance” to our flag. The closest we do is when there are assemblies we sing the national anthem and someone says the acknowledgement of the country.
I'm a Mexican,living in, born and raised in México, with the exception of one year as an exchange student in the US, we do have what we call "Honores a la Bandera" which is a whole ceremony (which includes an equivalent of the Pledge, called Juramento a la Bandera) we do ONLY on Mondays and special national holidays (not every day of the school week). Kind of mandatory at school, though it's hard for teachers to tell if everyone is participating as it's done usually on schools commons
Yes! I think it's way overboard. Maybe once a week would be OK?! I'm Australian and very proud of our country. I respect how moderate and egalitarian we try to be. Live and let live & stand up for a peaceful community.
Not all schools do the pledge, my last school didn’t even have flags in every classroom; and you don’t have to say the pledge, this teacher was just making a big deal out of nothing, normally nobody cares if you do or don’t say it, most kids don’t say it, they just stand up.
I'm from Norway, and we don't do anything like that at all. The only times we even listen to our national anthem is on the 17th of may (Independence Day for Norway)
I recently became a citizen of Norway, and didn't have to make any such pledge even for that. They just expect that if you're interested in the citizenship enough to fulfil the requirements, you're interested in the country.
I’m a Canadian. The answer is no, no they don’t. Only thing students have to do is stand up and listen to the Canadian national anthem. Don’t even have to sing it, just listen to it.
yea i really dont think people care that much and the ones I hear are literally just repeats from a random audio of someone singing it lol
It’s not the national anthem 😊
@@unclephilisavich8150 yes it is
@@unclephilisavich8150 Yes it is.
that sounds so absurd too. In here, Finland, we don't listen or watch or anything. We get into school, study, go home.
I'm a Indian. We sing our National Anthem every day in school but we aren't forced to do so, we do it by ourselves. The respect to the country comes from inside and not by such stupid stuff!
@LocalDeskChair yeah, sometimes cars stops in front of school because of driver's will. No one forces them to do so!
and it's not just for students all teachers do it too. even the gardeners, maids and bus drivers stand straight for those seconds. it comes naturally
@@yoyok__ and the respect to country comes from inside not from athems or oaths...
I'm also Indian and IDK if every school does this but in my school, after the national anthem we were supposed to say a pledge which was mandatory on official papers but wasn't really enforced. It just went like "India is my country, all Indians are my brothers and sisters, I love my country" etc etc
@@dalvived23 yes even in my school and every school i know does the pledge (both in Bangalore and in Hyderabad)
I’m Swedish, and this is genuinely the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard. Being forced to love your country, like what the heck?!?
When people have such a hard time loving their country that they get forced to do so... which ain't helping
Dags för oss att hedra vårat land. Fyfan vad sjukt, lol
Nationalism is BAD in America... i've had someone legit try to start a physical fight with me because I insulted the "greatest country on the planet."
Yea it’s so dumb
Yeah it’s pretty strange
I feel like the pledge of allegiance shouldn’t be forced upon kids. But important to realize and to keep in mind that we are very lucky to be in a free country, and those who fought for our freedom definitely deserve a thank you and some appreciation
You mean the free country with the largest prison population, the most powerful military, and the largest amount of debt?
There are way better ways than making kids stand up like they’re pledging to a cult every morning
Last time america fought for freedom
@@AmirShafeek 1776.
surprised when i saw this teacher get pissed off at someone not standing for the pledge while my entire class doesn’t even stand up for ti
As an American it’s weird that we hold freedom of speech as something so important and then people like this teacher enforce stupid rules like this. I never really like the pledge of allegiance but even if I did I wouldn’t force anyone else to do it.
Is it stupid to honor your flag?
@@jorgeromero7532 yep
Leave the US if you don’t care about the country.
@@fireboltaz no, I don’t think I will.
@@fireboltaz caring about the country and caring about the Pledge of Allegiance are two different things.
I'm from Italy and no we don't pledge the flag ever.
I mean it's illegal to tear it or to damage it in general but other than that we don't care about it, and we italians certainly love our country.
It’s more less the symbolism behind the flag.
my fellow italian
Oh tu guarda un altro italiano
then speak italian
My father said Spanish is Italy
Here in Philippines, the school requires each students to attend a flag ceremony every Monday to sing our national anthem and pledge of allegiance. In college, we even have a prerequisite subject where we have to memorize our constitution preamble to pass the subject 💁🏻♂️ we’re not even attending a law school and its just a minor subject.
I’m Welsh. Who would do something like this? Why would you pledge your allegiance yourself to your flag like a cult? That’s not a thing over here in Wales and I’m glad!
My teacher made us write a 10 paragraph essay on freedom because we didn’t stand.
*We still put our hand on our heart*
Mine did something similar as well
Dang! My teacher doesn't make us do it.
That's honestly stupid. My teacher doesn't care if we don't or can't. But she prefers if we do stand up for it.
Breh
The funniest part about it is it was Spanish class lmao
I am from the UK and we basically do nothing of that sort, no singing the anthem at the start of school, no listening to it and no talking about it. When we get to school we just sit in our seats and get on with the day
Then how do you learn your anthem and pledge? We do it as a requirement to not mess the lyrics. Just the ones who show real interest know the lyrics or it's totally a ward thing?
@@rosavillanueva5189 We just don't
Exactly
@Rosa Villanueva we don't need to if we don't want to, and doing that will have nothing to do with any future jobs, so it's useless, and if you want to learn it then you can, in your own house instead.
I'm from the UK and I don't even know what our national anthem sounds like lmao
I'm mexican, and the thing gets tricky here, we are expected to attend the "honores a la bandera" we are asked to sing the national anthem and show respect to the flag, but we only do it on Monday morning.
As an half italian half Paraguayan raised in italy, i can say that we do sing the national anthem sometimes bu aren’t forced to, we do it because we genuinely love our country
Como stai
I'm also Australian and tbh I think there'd be nation-wide riots if they tried to make us do something like this in any school. it's super weird to us and seems very indoctrination-y.
My goodness am I glad I’m not alone! I’m technically American and even I think the pledge thing is cult like, why is this a thing that’s forced?!
@@spirit6267 your country anthem is cult like....no wonder everywhere else people look at the west weirdly
I wouldn't say it's culty at all, It's a sign of respect to the soldiers who fought for our country.
@@SupSaffron I understand that, believe me i do. Respecting those who fought for what they believe in is important. It’s just the that’s it’s presented is really weird. It’s just this chant that you have to preform (depending on the school) every day. Even if you aren’t forced to participate some will most certainly look down on you if you don’t
@@SupSaffron but did they really fight for your country? i don't think America has ever been invaded. and isn't it supposed to be more a sign of respect to your country and not the soldiers? where did the military come in to this?
I’m Australian and I didn’t even know they have to do that in school… it seems insane to me. At schools here, we only have to sing the national anthem at occasional assemblies, but we aren’t forced to.
exactly
yea
In America it isn't even something we are forced to do٫ its just something that happens every morning. The teacher in this video is actually violating the first amendment of our constitution by trying force the kid to say the pledge.
As an Australian i can confirm
mate your schools lucky as hell im in australia if one of us does not stand up they will be brought to the office
Yes in Nigerian schools immediately we sing the national anthem we say the pledge. Everybody does it we've done it so much that it doesn't mean more than just words now
I'm from the Philippines and we do this every morning. We call it "the flag ceremony". We sing our national anthem then we do the pledge of allegiance. That's why every Filipino knows the words to our national anthem and pledge of allegiance.
I am an Indian. Even in the most nation loving strict schools like Kendriya Vidyalaya, Military Schools, they absolutely don't force the students to take our national pledge. But yeah the national anthem is compulsory.
I'm Indian and studied in an Indian School in Saudi Arabia. We had to say the pledge during morning assemblies everyday.
In my school we had to. But we are fine with it.
Aye, indian fans for Ray. So cool.
@@bindum7178 Yeah we didn't overthink it lol
Hey, here down south in Tamilnadu we pledge atleast once a week in common assemblies. I think that we are forced to pledge allegiance. Not daily tho.
Also Indians are everywhere dude!
What are we even doing here 😂😜
Im from India, and we do pledge here every morning but, the pledge itself is not only all about loving your country but its mostly to say that we will respect everyone and and treat everyone kindly.
That’s awesome! I would have stood up everyday to that forsure. That actually makes sense.
Can i ask what you guys say?
@@colesuqs India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters I pledge to pay respect to my parents and my teacher classmates and all elders and treat everyone with Courtsey and so on
*"courtsey"*@@sheetaldwivedi8593
All Indians are my brothers and sisters except one😅
I am Ghanaian. In Ghana, we sing a song we are taught in like kindergarten and we don’t have to sing and we don’t have to do it anytime after. When they call for the Pledge of Allegiance I silently recite either that song, the Ghanaian national anthem, or “Allez Paris Saint-Germain!”.
Just imagine if we did this in Germany...
Didn't end well the last time.
I'm Italian and I was born in Germany and I live there...in Italy and Germany there isn't anything like this! We don't sing an anthem and we don't play it either. The teacher enters the class and greets the students and students greet the teacher and the lessons begin.
Yeah both countries stopped doing that in 1945 and weirdly enough Americans freed us from having to do that on the daily
I think that's how it is in most of Europe.
Well, hey there my brother
Well, a german would be considered a naz* if he would do that. Exept at football games. I can confirm that
@@rodraick20rairma87 nope not here lol
This is a certified American moment
Yep
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No wonder this country has gone to hell.
Im Singaporean, and yes, we listen/sing to the national anthem and then say the pledge. We dont really have to speak during anything, just put our hands on our hearts, but yeah. We do it. As far as I know.
I‘m from Germany and this would be totally unimaginable in my country. Even if someone did that voluntarily, people would find him very weird.
Ahem.. AH
Correct I am also from Germany and it would be very strange if someone did something like that, I always thought the pledge of allegiance in America was a bit strange because you had to do it nearly everywhere! In grocery stores, at the beginning of American football games, at the beginning of school. I never really understood it. Sure, it’s nice to show you appreciate your country, but everyday? I don’t mean it’s not nice to appreciate your country, but I just think it’s a bit much having to do it everyday.
@@thecaeser it's not everyday. It's ti show respect for the country and its military
I'm also german
@@thecaeser it’s just in schools where they do it. They don’t pledge in grocery stores at all, and they do the national anthem at games, not the pledge
In the UK the idea of standing up in your school to pledge allegiance and/or sing the anthem each day (| at all) is crazy.
The only time I’ve done this in the uk was during scouts, and at least joining that was by my own choice. Doing that in school would be really weird.
I wish we did. Scouts sort of does it I think schools should do it.
I've only done this in a Christian school
@@Stormyshork Yeah
In the Uk too and it seems crazy because I don't usually hear the national anthem unless it's some important event like the Queen Lizzy passing away
In Australia we do the national anthem each monday
In Nigeria it is a MUST,you must pledge to the sh*tty country or else You'll be beaten.😂😂
In the Philippines, it is very common for us to stand up and put your hand on your heart. We do this in certain events in schools. But I never saw anyone be mad at it and is forced to do it though it is probably required for us during morning routine aka monday in my school. ❤️
It's honestly fun tho
I think he is asking whether the kids are forced to swear/pledge their aligance to their country every morning while covering their heart
sasageyo
@@ariaglobesolutions Not every morning but only in monday. And yes, it is required to pleadge.
Mabuhay ng Pilipinas
I am Australian, I can confirm that we don’t pledge our country but in primary school we sing the national anthem, high school in some places and in sport events. That’s it.
Yep, I can confirm that, but, in my school not for sports events
For primary we had to sing once a week but in Secondary only on Anzac day
I can confirm too, in Australia we only sing a national anthem during important occasions. Primary schoolers and High schoolers aren't pressured to do it either.
only for anzac day
As a Australian I can confirm we don’t for this guy
As a Canadian I didn't know you even did this, I feel very bad the only thing I do every morning is stand for our anthem for a min and then sit down
I live in Mexico and here every Monday a group of students march with the flag and everyone else sings the national anthem
America: We are in the land of the free!
Also America: WORSHIP OUR F*CKING FLAG!
fr tho
By your logic a person should be allowed to murder, r*pe, rob, assault and not face the consequences of his actions? No one have the freedom to do everything. Freedom exists but it’s not freedom absolutism.
@@Raspberries9372 wtf
yup sounds like america lol
@@Raspberries9372 There is absolute freedom, absolute control and a perfect balance. This is an absolute control to make kids pledge allegiance to a fuckin flag!
I wonder what he would say to a disabled student
to get enabled.
@@nightcrawlrxx 💀💀💀
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“Why aren’t u standin for this country huh”
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i am from Lithuania and can confirm that you never have to say anything
As a Canadian I can confirm that they do not do this, instead every Monday they play the national anthem and you have the option to stand up or salute
I am from Austria, and we don’t have to do that. The only thing that we do is stand up when the teacher comes in, to show them our respect.
I think thats just a general secondary school thing, we do it in England too.
Ye we do that too
Yeah.... American public school teachers never get that kind of respect.
Im from austria to
@@austriangamer7790 Nice bro👌
I'm brazilian. And, at least where I live, we don't worship our country that much, of course there's patriotism and we decorate the anthem as kids, but it's not on a daily basis we show our love and respect for the country. Only in military schools, and we make a lot of fun of them for their methodic ways.
Especially laughing at the military who protects our country and do more than we do in our life 😂
Pra mim tbm, a gente mal faz isso, estranho q os americanos ficam fazendo isso todo o dia
Eu não gosto mt disso mas se fosse todo o dia seria MUITO chato
Sim verdade, por aqui a gente só canta o hino nacional quando crianças na escola, mas ninguém é obrigado a fazer isso, a maioria fazia porque queria cantar o hino, esse povo dos USA são extremos demais as vezes
Bolsonaro
Olha, vou te falar. Eita povo americano esquisito do cacete 😂
In Canada we just listen to the national anthem once a week,usually on a Monday
I am british and i can confirm we dont pleadge allegiance to the flag of the uk at all
As a german I feel like it would be kinda problematic if we had something like that xD
Yep, I was thinking it's similar to _that_ era of Germany
Lol
Still a bit too soon yeh x)
The problem would be people being scared of a proud german, thats not a problem, its bias.
LOL
I’m Venezuelan, but currently live in the US. I can’t explain how confused I was when I saw everyone stand up, put their hand to their chest and pledge their allegiance. In Venezuela, every Monday they would take all classes of the school to the courtyard and we sung our national anthem, of course you didn’t have to if you didn’t want to but you still stood in lines with the rest of the kids.
Thats what happens here
I was shocked when I came to the US from the UK and saw people pledging their loyalty to a flag
How’s it going over there btw
@@JoJo-op5xywdym over there
Omg that must've sucked, I'm so sorry for our weird ways honestly
This is y i hide under the table instead, everyday 😂😂😂😂😂
I am a Canadian and they do make us stand up to the anthem of Canada
As a non American the “pledge of allegiance” is the weirdest/most American thing I’ve ever seen
Not my teacher yelling at us to stand up and pledge my allegiance 😶(too bad I literally don’t care)
It's patriotic if you don't get it it's fine but most schools don't force someone to
@@glamrockbonnie5983 there's no patriotism in indoctrination
@@glamrockbonnie5983
It is, as Faster Days points out, pure indoctrination. If you don't get _that_ it's not fine.
@@fasterdays "indoctrination"?
“i’ll defend my country to the very end” bro 💀 the drama lmaoo
I’m from the UK and we do not pledge for our country although if it’s an important thing to do with the royal family then it’s normally on every radio station (BBC,ITV etc.)
I am Latvian, and we don't. MAXIMUM what we do is sing the anthem in start of school year. That's all.
i'm dutch and never in my life had i pledged my allegiance to my country.
I'm Dutch and I also love the Dutch dream of actual freedom
I'm dutch and i never had to do that in my life.
Europeans☕
@@racist-grandpa yes, let's have tea over why you think European countries not forcing kids to be nationalists is a bad thjng
@@jas.per.25 also Europe : colonises the world
“I will defend my country till the very end” 💀
to the very end of the us hes not gonna live 💀💀
His ass would be on the first flight to another country the minute he's drafted to defend our country.
From slightly rebellious teenages💀💀
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With the way the us is going, I don’t think that’s something to be proud of
We’re not asked, it’s California, we’re a melting pot, but we’re still mostly expected to at least acknowledge the pledge is happening. Do most people stand up? Yeah. Does everyone? Sometimes.
I’m from Canada we just have to stand for the national anthem we don’t have to show our faith to the country
I'm from Poland, and I never had to do that. Only thing we do is standing up and sing anthem on national holidays, and ps. Poland is very patriotic country
adults using bounce houses RISKS not telling the ages apart.
Makes me wish my ancestors hadn’t left Poland.
Oh man I love this country
@@niskikret Would you consider leaving on 2 tables lamps with 2 different types of bulbs and seeing which lamp burns out first, an experiment?,.
@@mixedfeelingsaboutturning1910 That's a Hella wierd question. And no, it would take to long
one thing that this guy will always have my respect for is that he is never scared to state his own opinion.
why wouldnt he be hes behind a screen
Ya anyone can give thier opinion online with no backlash. It's not hard to go along with the national narrative they push on the media either
Hello fellow squishy
I have a home room teacher that thinks I’m a jehova witness because I don’t want to do the pledge of allegiance
I'm from Estonia, and I never had to do that. Only thing we do is stand up and sing our anthem on national holidays.
What is Estonia
@@imtyler99yearsago90 a country 😐
@@qizzle where
@@imtyler99yearsago90 europe, in the baltics near russia and finland
I'm European, and as an outsider I always thought that this was insane.
So glad we don't have that in my country
Who tf says he´s european and not his specific origin Country?
Thought only Americans do that xD
@@1Jannoh1 Nah, I say it that way cause some people forget that Spain is in Europe so I just say it like that
@@alexcant2310 Then you might want to include your country as well as the continent, otherwise it's super vague.
As an outsider you don't understand patriotism? Weird.
@@abingham3747 It's not that, I don't understand forcing children into it, when they clearly don't understand the concept
I'm Nigerian and yes, it's normal here for students and pupils to sing the national anthem and state the pledge every morning, in both public and private schools.
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No 🧢. It’s compulsory in some schools in Nigeria. Including mine
Interesting
@@catlord2568 no really, we do it every morning during assembly
not strictly, just on tradition
@@catlord2568 Seriously we do It every morning our school forces us to do it, if not we all kneel down
I'm from Canada and no they only play the national anthem and ask us to stand up and stay still as a sign of respect
I’m South African, and all we do on a Monday is pray (My school is christian). But we only do something similar to this on a important sports event like a rugby match.
I’m from the Philippines, and we only have flag ceremonies every Monday morning for the national anthem, panatang makabayan (kinda like the pledge of alliegance), the school song, and the prayers. We’re not even required to recite any of them. We just have to attend for those 10 minutes and that’s all.
Yeah in elementary in my school we do the flag ceremony everyday but in high school we only do it every monday and we dont even say it we just pretend that we do
dont forget the panunumpa sa watawat ng pilipinas which is basically the pledge for the philippine flag
Once a week is still much in my eyes.
we do it in every face to face
@@popkids8382 I never encountered Panunumpa sa Watawat at my Elementary days but as from Laguna, we have CALABARZON March.
New Zealand here! No, we don’t “pledge allegiance to our flag”. As other people have said, it sounds ridiculous. The closest thing I ever got to that was singing our national anthem every Friday, but I feel that’s a bit more fair. Plus, we only do it for important occasions at college.
exactly. did your teachers make you learn hakas tho? ours did
@@nommd7371 Nah, but we had a kapa haka group if you wanted to participate in that
We were Jehovah's Witnesses so we weren't to participate in any of that. We just sat there in assembly while everyone else was standing.
I’m from France, and the answer is no, they don’t.
For freedom and justice for all, is having the kids recite a lie.
As a Canadian, I always thought that was messed up when I heard americans do this. But we do have to stand for the anthem at school, but not say anything
we dont have to say anything here in america either
@@MohammedAliPM tbh at my school you're still encouraged to so some still don't even tho others (like me) could care less
I'm in America and we never sang it
Wait it's probably because the video was in a mid western state
I'm Canadian and we didn't
That’s ironic because some of the most obnoxiously patriotic and nationalistic people I’ve met were Canadian, moreso than a lot of Americans. Like, a huge central part of Canadian identity is literally focused around not being American, resulting in some pretty militant nationalists overcompensating for a lack of uniqueness, i.e. an inferiority complex.
I'm Mexican, we only sing the national anthem on Mondays but are not forced to.
No, todas las escuelas están obligadas en mi conocimiento
Incluyendo privadas
No puedo recordar si era obligatorio. Todos se quejaban del calor y el Sol, pero tampoco nadie se atrevió a saltarse la asamblea.
Acá en el salvador solo se dice el himno a la bandera en días patrios pero oí que en los ochentas habían escuelas en donde se decía a Darío. No se si todavía hay escuelas que lo hagan asi.
@@elmatador2162 estoy en privada y no lo hacemos, pero creo q es por el covid
@@rosavillanueva5189 nunca he visto que tomen asistencia así que supongo que te la puedes pintar
Pledge of allegiance is A CHOICE. They should just stand with their class but not forced to say it
In Sweden we absolutely do not pledge allegiance to our flag. It sounds like a ridiculous idea to basically every person I've ever met. As in other European countries, we occasionally sing the national anthem on special occasions, but in my experience many people don't even know the lyrics to it.
När jag var liten sjöng vi nationalsången på skolavslutningar iaf
Hej andra svenska personer
Man vill ju inte vara den som är den, men det är inte särskilt konstigt att en viss andel av våra skolelever inte kan nationalsången
... att kunna texten (och melodin) är, såvitt jag förstår, ett kunskapsmål i musik i grundskolan... F i musik?
@@matilda4625 Jo, vi med, åtminstone tills femte klass när jag bytte skola. Kan kanske variera från plats till plats hur ofta man sjunger den.
This all seems so weird for me. I'm from the Netherlands and we don't have to do that of anything like that at all. We don't have to listen to the national anthem, we don't have to honor a flag and we absolutely didn't have to do this at school. And while it is not respectful, it is also not illegal to destroy the flag, no punishment at all. I luckily can't even imagine to have to go through all of that each day...
Ngl my ancestors got kicked out of the Netherlands/chased out for some stupid reason, so now my name is Zane Choate instead of Zane van Choate
It’s not even that bad. You don’t even have to speak, you can just pledge to the flag without much work.
It's not really that bad it becomes a after thought after doing it so much.
Yeah, thats why u are Netherlands and we are AMERICA. and say what u want im a patriot.
My man is just came all the way here from the nether
in my private school? yes. in the public school? couldnt give two craps, lol.
German here. Do you know how I learned the lyrics of the anthem? I googled it as an adult 😂 But we also usually don't have flags in our classrooms and our national holiday isn't that kind of a big deal either anymore. Here you literally have to search for flags (German ones at least) in the open.
As an Australian, we don't pledge our flag. The closest to us to pledge our flag is singing the national anthem in an assembly or a special day for our country.
Edit: Thanks for all the likes!🎉🎉🎉
Yeah im an australian too and when i went to public school it was just the national anthem and the school song at assembly
@@benjaminjames420 A little off topic but I thought the school song was a weird thing that really only my school did 😂
i am from australia but it may depend on school but in my school it is opional to even sing it.
anyone from perth???
Ok mates I’m in queens land Australia rusles
I live here, but I don’t pledge allegiance. I’m disappointed in this country.
As I always said; I’m not standing for this country until there *IS* “Liberty and Justice” *for ALL.*
Odd choice. It seems your stance is still for the country, no? The better of it and it's people?
What laws actually state against liberty and justice for all 😐
@@ellir3362 no law. But just because something isn't legal doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Maybe you are part of the reason there isn’t liberty and justice for all.
@@ellir3362 lots of states. Heck look at CA trying to legalize infanticide up to a month after birth
In N.Ireland we don’t pledge. Thankfully
I'm from south africa and they force us to plieg and they will criticize you if you don't
In Germany, nobody is pressurized to stand for the pledge and we can continue on with what we do. Plus, Germans have other ways to express their love for the country. The national anthem is sung at very special events, and we have Oktoberfest to cherish our culture. Americans have something going on-
Love your videos.
sure buddy
Well it would be suspicious if Germany started forcing people for a pledge of allegiance.
@@theoneandonlydoge2267 wdym sure buddy-this is literally the case in germany as he is describing it.
@@user-qe1hu1xy8q Indeed, yes it would be...
@@portablejea7014 sure buddy
I am from India and yes we do sing India's national anthem every morning. We also say the school English prayer and HIndi prayer
Yaa and pledge for honesty,and equality. It is compulsory during prayer time
I have been to a few schools and some make us say the Indian pledge and some don't
@@mrunmaybehere2801 yaa if you study then pledge is menditory.
In our school we say the pledge everyday except saturdays where we dont even speak we just stand there and listen while someone reads out the constitution of india 🇮🇳
Dude which school r u going to man, the only thing we do is that school prayer and national anthem
A pledge isn’t really a pledge if you’re forced to do it
The Bahamas, Mexico, and South Korea have a Pledge of allegiance to their flag.
In North Korea you Pledge Allegiance to Kim Jong Un, not to some flag.
Even I'm from India. Usually they make us do like a prayer but it's not something that anyone takes seriously. Wanting to pay respect to your country comes from more than just a pledge.
in my school they had a pledge every morning
We had to do the national pledge everyday
We had pledged every morning
We have to pledge everyday
Did you never say India is my country all indians are my brothers and sisters thing in school? We had to say it every alternate day...
I'm an American and I see some kids not doing the pledge in the morning and it got me thinking about it, and honestly every time I hear "please stand for the pledge of allegiance" immediately I stand up, it feels strange when I think about it.
I don't stand up simply because I don't want to and I don't really like the USA even though I was born here
@@Kiwegamer and why is that?
@@brybry8685 if you read what I wrote you might know
@@brybry8685america isn’t nice
@@KiwegamerI would say”why not just move out of the us”then it ember what bugs lay outside of the us
my teacher at school taught us that we arent forced to say the pledge because of freedom of speech
Honestly, I'm just surprised we don't have to sing the entire National Anthem
Because almost none of us know the words to the song.
☠️ imagine learning that bad boi in Pre-K
we do that in turkey lol
In Mexico we do, in some schools private and public but NOT everyday... Just once a week. Sing the national anthem
We do though 😃
One day during middle school, a friend of mine would stand up, put her hand on her heart, but wouldn’t say the words. The “popular girls” I guess you could call them, got pissed at her for it. That friend was normally quiet, never talked during class, and never did much inside school. Yet those kids attacked her for not saying some words. After that, I just stand up, not say the words or move my hand to my heart. People shouldn’t be attacked or humiliated because they didn’t pledge their cult-ish loyalty to the country.
It feels like a cult like we are trying to be brainwashed
I LOVE how you did nothing to help that girl attacked by the "popular girls".
@@CC-si3crI love that you’re talking out of your ass to a stranger about a situation you could not know less about considering neither of us were there.
I’m from the uk and that would be looked at as the craziest thing by teachers and students
Never been a thing ever!
I’m from Australia.
We don’t pledge our allegiance to our flag. We only sing or pledge allegiance to the flag on a special occasion, awards ceremony or an international match.
This doesn’t make you Americans weird it just shows us how connected you guys are to your country but the teacher did not have to force the kid to stand up. It is his decision wether to stand up or not.
Sometimes as well as praising the indeginous people's land
@@101_Digi Nonetheless more praising the Australian.
Whose winning the granny tomorrow?
We sing the national anthem on those occasions, but there is no real flag worship or pledge.
But it does make them kinda weird
@@vivian8779 doesn’t really have anything to do with it but hopefully Geelong. (As a bombers supporter)
I was born in Brazil and raised in America. In Brazil we don’t do anything similar in our schools. I did the pledge of allegiance every day in school in America and don’t think it’s a bad thing. However there was at least always someone who didn’t partake and everyone including the teacher respected there decision to not stand. It’s fine if wanna do it and it’s fine if you don’t. At the end of the day we all love our country flaws and all.
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@@lucasseal1 lol
@@NOT_A_ROBOT ova thareir
When I lived in the USA I never said the pledge, but people always would get mad at me for not doing it (not the teacher of course)
I from Belgium and no we don't do that here.
In Australia we do it when whe have to sing the national anthem once a week when we have an assembly.
I have a student in my class who doesn’t stand for the pledge. I don’t think much of it. Maybe they have beliefs that don’t allow it.
Half my class doesn't care
Or they just don’t wanna. If you go to high school ain’t no one gonna stand for it.
Yeah, these students shouldn’t be forced to do it to “defend the country”
@@solar_fish5511 pathetic, only 2 students stand in my class
They should be encouraged to pledge, but not forced or pressured
I’m Serbian and we only have to sing it at the start of every school year, but we aren’t forced and my class loves singing it. Sometimes, in music class if we have some time left, we will sing it because we want to.
Great video Ray as always!
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that explains why u are the only pro russian country in Europe!
This is a great compromise that would probably be more effective because students may actually like singing it
A pledge and a anthem are two different things
I'm Serbian, and I did not have this in my school in 2000s :) So I guess it also depends on the school.
Every Monday morning, Assembly. National anthem, state anthem, pledge of allegiance. It’s normal.
But it's just pledge
no we pledge our allegiance to ikea.
I’m from Australia and we don't ever “pledge allegiance” to our flag. The closest we do is when there are assemblies we sing the national anthem and someone says the acknowledgement of the country.
it's more of an acknowledgement of Country (Aboriginal Australian term), rather than country.
I'm a Mexican,living in, born and raised in México, with the exception of one year as an exchange student in the US, we do have what we call "Honores a la Bandera" which is a whole ceremony (which includes an equivalent of the Pledge, called Juramento a la Bandera) we do ONLY on Mondays and special national holidays (not every day of the school week). Kind of mandatory at school, though it's hard for teachers to tell if everyone is participating as it's done usually on schools commons
I’m from Sweden and HELL NO we can have democracy and that means we can do anything we want EXCEPT crimes🤓👆
Im from Scotland. the first thing we do in the morning is the register too see which students are present.
Yes! I think it's way overboard. Maybe once a week would be OK?! I'm Australian and very proud of our country. I respect how moderate and egalitarian we try to be. Live and let live & stand up for a peaceful community.
Not all schools do the pledge, my last school didn’t even have flags in every classroom; and you don’t have to say the pledge, this teacher was just making a big deal out of nothing, normally nobody cares if you do or don’t say it, most kids don’t say it, they just stand up.
I'm from Norway, and we don't do anything like that at all. The only times we even listen to our national anthem is on the 17th of may (Independence Day for Norway)
I am also from Norway
I recently became a citizen of Norway, and didn't have to make any such pledge even for that. They just expect that if you're interested in the citizenship enough to fulfil the requirements, you're interested in the country.
Im from sweden
@@nikanrahimi5794 great place, i went there in october
Yes, it is in central and south America. It brings people together by recognizing solidarity to your homeland.