06-27-2016, 11:55 AM
Coming off of Pride Weekend here in San Francisco...
While an embassy is considered that country's "soil" the whole point of its inhabitants - the diplomats - is to NOT piss anybody off. Its called cultural sensitivity. Would they fly a Rainbow Flag from the US embassy in Saudi Arabia? I highly doubt it.
Awareness is a good thing - and slowly things are changing for LGBT in Jamaica...but look at the US, it takes a whole lot of TIME to shift a cultural and public vibe. Inflaming the public is so not the way to do it.
So while yes, the Embassy can fly any flag it wants as an Embassy - it should know better.
While an embassy is considered that country's "soil" the whole point of its inhabitants - the diplomats - is to NOT piss anybody off. Its called cultural sensitivity. Would they fly a Rainbow Flag from the US embassy in Saudi Arabia? I highly doubt it.
Awareness is a good thing - and slowly things are changing for LGBT in Jamaica...but look at the US, it takes a whole lot of TIME to shift a cultural and public vibe. Inflaming the public is so not the way to do it.
So while yes, the Embassy can fly any flag it wants as an Embassy - it should know better.
"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."
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