Seems very much like indoctrination to get kids to “fall in line” and enforced conformity, to try to remove independent thinking.

I’ve always hated the idea of that. What do you think about it?

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    Soccer uniforms have to be same color too it’s not “authoritarianism.”

    Also idk about psychology but just a tiny bit of cohesion is much better over extreme individualism no?

    • Unity isn’t always a good thing.

      Americans had “unity” after 9/11, so they rally behind someone that would be violating international laws. Anyone that criticizes is “anti-America”. If you opposed the patriot act, you’re “anti-America”, you “hate freedom”.

      Unity in terms of internationlization would be positive, but most of the time, its just nationalism.

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        Americans had “unity” after 9/11

        Uh, no we didn’t. Source: am American, lived through that period.

        Yes we had a brief period of unity (and solidarity with NYC) following 9/11, but as soon as the American War Machine woke up, my country was intensely divided.

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          And even then I am assuming muslim Americans were still left out on that small period of unity.