UK Skins Fan wrote:... I honestly don't see the problem with his opening post. In my humble and sincere opinion, the thread started downhill from the moment your hostile opening remarks were posted.
A guy that comes here boasting about his Central American Hispanic background and who has drafted several posts in Spanish in this board now finds it "insulting" if somebody translates the National Anthem into Spanish? Spare me.
You might fail to see the -context- of the debate in time and space. The political times in the USA under this administration are very turbulent, not only for the USA but for many others outside of their country as well.
Redeemed's "outrage" takes place in the context of a very delicate moment in US politics and, while he may or may not know it, the possible beginning of yet another war abroad. One far more dangerous and difficult than the one going on at present.
The USA will need ALL the support it can get from within and from abroad to succeed in these difficult times. A divided USA will not succeed. You know from history that a USA without allies may not succeed either.
The worst possible scenario that can take place in the USA is a xenophobic attitude towards minorities and the most vulnerable members of their society. Propaganda is effective and the manipulation of information directed to the US middle class is truly frightening.
Some posters have insisted that this is -their- problem. It is not. What happened in Rome had an impact throughout their Empire and beyond. What happens inside the USA will win them or lose them unity and international support at a very critical time in the contemporary history of the western world.
Perhaps it is too much to ask from a middle class bombarded with daily veiled and open propaganda to wake up at once and realise that they are walking a very dangerous path by lending their ears to the most radical members of their political establishment. But I am strong believer about the truth and its ability to prevail in the end.
I am drafting these words from a perspective of somebody that understands that the moral high ground that the World may have vis-a-vis terrorists stands on the universal principles of human rights and respect for the rule of law in a compassionate environment. The current war is not a military war only. It is a war of ideas and principles.
I am drafting these words from a perspective of a profound foreign admirer to the principles and foundations that made the United States the most powerful nation on the face of the earth.
The same most powerful and influential superpower left on the face of the earth in the fields of economic, military and cultural affairs that must not feel so insecure only because their national anthem is translated into another language with the intention to express love and loyalty by the most dispossessed members of their society.
If anybody were to translate the Canadian national anthem, a beautiful anthem available in English and French as you may know, into -any- other languages with the intention to express loyalty and affection by others, I would be not only pleased but grateful! I would be moved.
No, the criticism to the translation into another language of the US national anthem is not based on values. It is a misguided and divisive propaganda excuse.
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