Bringing your friends home to show off a new Ham radio or your great-great-great grandfather's rebelflag probably won't boost your popularity in high school.
During the South Carolina Republican primaries, polls showed that even conservative whites were nervous about the rebelflag on the state capitol: hence the decision by politicians to remove it.
"Of course, if the revolution was won in the first six months, everything would be easier, " Daghestany said, while toying with a necklace decorated with the colors of the Syrian rebelflag.