• TheFlopster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I did once! Technically it was a participation ribbon. Picture it: Southern California, 1993, school foot race. I was 8 years old. The winners got the blue ribbon and the whatever second place was colored ribbon. And everybody else (me) got a white participation ribbon.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, this is consistent with my experience too. I got one or two participation ribbons in my whole school life (graduated early 2000s), but they weren’t common, and they never came at the exclusion of winners being recognized.