To continue the post below, I am torn between the traditions of an ethnicity, which should be expressed to assert diversity as human reality in the face of a mob majority. Yet I cringe at the notion that G-d wants anyone to wear a hat; largely because those who wear the largest hats most constantly are so often engaged in puffery, attempting to intimidate their more secular brethren, or perhaps attract gullble mates, by clownish displays of piety. Bigger breasts for the ladies, bigger shoes, cars, beards, earlobes or hats for the men...if you have ever thought that perhaps men were just strutting about the earth like so many turkeys, check out the India/Pakistan border. It would have been jjst a bit more appropriate to have John Cleese be the reporter, however (see: Ministry of Silly Walks)

So let me extend my mistrust to the military as well: don't trust anyone who proclaims their identity via a funny hat. Unless your life depends on it, like when you call the cops (and hopefully in such a case you are white so they don't shoot the wrong guy). Try Dave Chappelle for a far more eloquent presentation of that American dilemma.