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It's interesting how people like to defend the real meaning of symbols or the way they dress so that it can fit their new idea. For instance, the Confederate flag. Most of America is calling to have that flag removed from federal and public land because it represents slavery and a traitorous union of southern states back in the 1860's. Now, granted the Civil War is long over, but the ideology behind the flag still persist. Back in the 90's I've heard kids calling it a "rebel" symbol in ignorance, not having knowledge about the real meaning behind it. Now southern folks trying to defend it is calling it a symbol of their heritage. Yes, it's true being southern does have it's own flavor, but perhaps creating a different flag to represent southern culture instead of using one that represents a dark period of American history would be a more acceptable way to go. Here's another one that you may have seen, "Sagging" teens walking around with their pants coming down and bunching around their ankles. Somehow someone thought that was cool, "gangster" as they say and kids everywhere of different races started wearing their pants that way. In reality it was a symbol used in prison to identify that the person wearing their pants down was the gay property of another prisoner. I don't know about you, but I can't see a young man being respectable trying to imitate a felon. Especially one that is identified as another male prisoner's woman. To make my point longer, originally harmless symbols can also be contaminated like the swastika, which has been used through out history to mean different things, but now will forever be seen as the WWII Nazi symbol of extreme hatred and genocide. I'm just one person sharing a thought, but trying to change the meaning of a symbol that has already been used to cause a lot of irreversible damage is always a bad idea, because even if the event is over, the idea it represented will long be remembered.