Car with flag or as rolling memorials
This morning I was driving into work and while stopped at a stoplight looked to my left. It was a standard minivan. Two kids in the back and the mom driving in the front. On the dash were a couple of religious statues. Nothing too out of the ordinary. Then I saw a minature, Phillipene flag hanging from the rearview mirror. Why is the hanging of flags from other countries so popular? I mean isn’t it enough that this country has afforded this woman the opportunity to be driving her two kids around in a $30,000 car? She still has so much allegiance to another country that she is hanging a foreign flag in her car? I just don’t get it. If people are so proud of these other countries, why aren’t they living there? If these other countries are so great that they hang that flag instead of Ol’ Glory, why do they choose to stay here?
Another question on this whole car thing that I don’t understand is when did cars become rolling memorials? Why the heck would you want to put a person’s name and lifespan on the back window of a car? Is that really honoring someone who died? I do understand that sometimes there are reasons, like the creation of a foundation or charity in a persons name. Generally, though, why would a person want to put the name and dates of birth and death on their car? Is this generational? Is it cultural? Please explain it to me.
December 12th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
You gotta be kidding me. Another typical wealthy tri-geek republican who hates the fact that many Americans hate American politics. Maybe they were Mexican and hate the fact that Cali used to be Mexican, maybe they just miss some of thier culture.
December 13th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Oh, Mike…or should I just call you TJ,
Who are you calling a wealthy republican? I am neither. I would think someone attending Maranatha High School, a private-christian school in Pasadena, Cali, is much more republican and wealthy than myself.