Don Pedro

I'm from England.

My country has flaws, my country folk have flaws, we have a rich culture and history and we have a lot to be proud of, but we also have a lot to be ashamed of.

I would say despite this I am fiercely patriotic, although I accept being born here was completely accidental so to be patriotic in a sense is quite silly, at the same time for the last 30+ years a cultural marxist agenda has been trying to diminish what is great about our country and make us feel ashamed to be proud, aswell as selling off our culture and replacing it with a foreign culture. It's now become frowned upon to fly our national flag. I'm neither racist nor xenophobic and I appreciate and celebrate many cultures, however I feel my own nation and culture is under attack and so this has bred a patriot in me.

Yeah.

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GuitarViking

Yeah, I´s so far the only one to vote 10. Norway is awesome.

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blankoff

Going Sandhurst after uni hopefully so...

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Craigo

I find it interesting how Americans are giving answers more in relation to the historical understanding of patriotism. Might possibly be due to historical reasons. (This is not to undermine anything. I always have a soft spot for radical political philosophies in history, not excluding anglo-American radicals in the 18th century.)

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zenbone

I am not captain America but i do like my country. I think that most countries have good and bad, mine included. I am living in Korea currently and i have been to japan and loved it. the only thing that makes me feel a semi-swell of patriotism is when America is being trashed online. I hate that it has become cool to trash America by people who have never been there. Just as i would never say harsh words toward other countries (that i have not been too) i do not appreciate hearing it of my country. Do we have problems? Of course, but so does every other country.

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DJ_Effrey

Hmmm... are you sure you're from New Zealand, being all nice about Aussies???


lol jokes, I would also like to have some mutual love between Aus & NZ. Although I can't see that happening with TV like this:

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xgunterx

So is your paint (Jotun). After dealing with this chore yearly to keep our wood outside in good condition, I finally won't have to worry about it now for the next couple of years. More time for something else. Woot!

My wife always wants to go south for the holidays. I want to go north! But I heard Norway is pretty expensive though. Fact or false?

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Cal UK

Yeah, bloody Thatcher and her Marxism.

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jgbsmith

I'm only patriotic in the presence of the english.

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WaterGod

All them other countrys are just jealous of our freedom.

DaveM666

No I'm not patriotic. I have no love government, current or past, and I have no love for the sheep like metality that has infected a large chunk of the population. There's nothing to be proud of, and UK heritage is basicaly built off suffering and smashing the underlings, there's nothing to be proud of.

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Ninja Vampirate

lmao

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vitchb

I think the UK is a good place to live, in certain places. I'm grateful I live here, but I'm in no way proud to be British.. because I had no say in living here, I didn't earn my citizenship, neither did I make this country what it is today.

Patriotism is a concept I don't really understand... it's just taking other people's achievements and feeling glory from them because you live on the same plot of land as them.

blake1221

Seeing how you're an illegal alien, why would you be in America if you didn't like it?

Why would you stay here if you don't even support it?

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WCPhils

You have got to remember that this is the Pit. Everyone is allowed to like their country except Americans

That being said, I love it here. The only other place I would consider moving is probably Canada, since they are pretty similar imo. I'm probably a 7 or 8

Afroboy267

No.

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This is hardly confined to the Pit. It exists in the real world too, go to another country and start expressing pride in the USA and see how quickly many people will become hostile.
The reason for this is fairly obvious, the US's foreign policy for the last 50 or so years has been absolutely deplorable in the eyes of most of the world. People understandably have a reaction against anything that they could see as condoning it. This is the same problem that the British face when expressing patriotism around people who have not forgotten the actions of the British in the past, the US gets it worse because they're seen as still at it right now and completely unrepentant (unlike the Brits who have at least apologised for lots of their stuff)


I understand that some people see patriotism more as being happy to live in a certain place or liking their country, but for many (especially people on the outside looking in) patriotism is linked to support for the actions of the state, both past and present. I don't think that it's unfair, given this understanding of patriotism, that people would attack American Patriotism.

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