sentences:  The flag stands for larger symbols such as freedom, democracy, free enterprise or national superiority.Anthropologist Sherry Ortner writes that the flag
  does not encourage reflection on the logical relations among these ideas, nor on the logical consequences of them as they are played out in social actuality, over time and history.On the contrary, the flag encourages a sort of all-or-nothing allegiance to the whole package, best summed [by] 'Our flag, love it or leave.'