I'm British but I recently moved to the US and go to high school. Thankfully there's no pledge of allegiance, but I am amazed by the crazy amount of flags. There's one in every single classroom in the school except one class where the flag holder built into every single whiteboard was blocked by a TV mount. The history textbooks are stupidly biased towards the US and the teachers and school know it, but they have to use the textbooks under state law. Most of the students are very critical of Europe and voice their criticisms openly to me, but when I draw their attention to similar, sometime worse, problems in the US like, well, being forced to practically devote yourself to the American government, they try and find any way to deny it. Most Americans I've met seem to think that a two-party system of idiotic politicians is oh-so-democratic and better than every other country's government because it is. I believe the Nazis had something similar to the Pledge of Allegiance, they even used the same salute.