[quote=@harinezumikouken]
Wow, are you serious? They don't allow public displays of national pride?
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There is no national pride in Germany. That is something people from America don't seem to understand. That people are like "I'm German, so what? I could've been born anywhere else, nothing special"
And especially with our historic background, of which we are reminded of daily, it is very difficult to even strat to feel "proud" of being German.