Not only to Brits!

Dude... Not only brits. Me as a slav this is like.. What the f**k is wrong with you people

wait that's not normal? are we being brainwashed as children to have total allegiance to america?

scary to me too, and I’m South Korean

We do it because of you Brits. We are still pissed about 1776. ;)

They like to start the brainwashing young here!

I think it's more tradition at this point. I remember saying it as a kid and it was just something we did. We didn't think about the meaning of the words at all, no kid does.

Sort of sends you to a 1939 Germany

Do they not sing God Save the Queen to a picture on the wall in the UK? I'm Canadian and on our military bases kids sing ( or did when I was young) Oh Canada and God Save the Queen at least once a day.

Plus, to illustrate further craziness, Texas also has a Pledge to the Texas Flag. I kid you not. We moved here to TX about 3-4 years ago and I substitute teach. Every school day, the students stand to do the U.S. pledge followed by the Texas pledge and then a moment of silence (because prayers are illegal).

it was stated to sell flags, and the pledge, gets kids to believe in government, just because.

Even as a child I faked it. I'm an individual, not a herd member. It also conflicts with my basic spiritual principles. I'll not pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth, nor to a government. I do pledge however, to be a decent and moral person, to help my neighbors, and to not break too many laws of the place I live. The only real exception is cannabis of course. I still can't figure out how the State is victimized by person's enjoying some fine bud. Yet, they persist in purveying this erroneous view.

Do they really think that will teach children anything but the pledge itself?

And if you try to not do it. Ooo even getting rid of the practice is met with horror. I don't know why it's still a thing here.

but we dont say god save the queen

That's rarely done anymore. And most people here don't understand America is not a Democracy, it's a Republic. A fact stated in the Pledge of Allegiance. Maybe if more knew and recited the Pledge, we'd know more about who is actually against us and who supports us.

We used to the least socialist government

I always thought it was strange that my teachers made me say the same words everyday, at the same time as everyone else...

It was totally normal in grade school So was reading a bible verse before class starts. When I was in the air force we also had the national anthem before movies, we saluted the flag when it went up in the morning and in the evening when it went down.

Me too (american)

Yeah, it's weird and stupid.

When I was a kid, if we mumbled or left out the "under God" part we would get sent to the principal's office for paddling.

And if we don't do it, we get yelled at B)

It weirds out plenty of Americans, too. I just did it automatically in school, but looking back - wow.

Yea. And it is not even a pledge to allegiance to America...it is "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America"...allegiance to a piece of fabric...I was always confused about this and thought it was stupid but as a kid you just assume adults know what they are talking about. yea, wrong!

LOL no one knows what we're saying.....we just do it. I think it's a promise of loyalty and to respect the flag; but not sure no one is

And other immigrants

Yes, makes much more sense to sing a song about your earthly representation of God, the Queen. Shocking that our children would pledge themselves to America, when we could just ask "God" to save our "Insert inbred descendent of warlord here".

I hate that pledge. It should be thrown out of school and saved for actual gatherings, like congress, I dunno

Hilarious coming from the totalitarian government from which we won our independence. Doh!

This is just propaganda. The only times kids do this is when they’re learning about it. This is not something we do regularly