I don’t understand this weird American obsession with flag. I was looking at some photos of Trump’s rallies. Flags everywhere - on shirts, hats, glasses etc. And this bizarre cult of the flag - “it cannot touch the ground” etc.
At the end of the day the flag is just a piece of cloth. If you worship any flag or take offense to any flag, you need to get a life.
Someone else in this post made a good point, that a country flag is generally a symbol of a state, rather than an independent people. It represents the government, and there are many governments who earn disrespect even if their citizens don’t.