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Originally posted by RACooper
If yor saying patriotic... yes
The problem is far too many people confuse patriotism and nationalism. Personally after many visits to the states since 9/11, I feel that patriotism has been replaced by nationalism.
If you want an example, last March I was walking through dowtown Washington looking at all the flags and flag-like banners. In combination with the overt security I was unfortunately reminded of Nazi Germany. The imagary not the atmosphere (think of the old black and white films of Berlin with the banners everywhere). I was struck by the need to prove how patriotic each building or business was. I have always adopted the standard that until proven otherwise, they are patriotic.
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I'm sorry perhaps you don't understand the difference between patriotism/nationalism/fascism. In the meantime, please ask all Canadians to stop wearing those silly maple leaf flags - specially in the US.
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Originally posted by Eupolis
I can tell you that I definitely think that we can improve on a lot of things here. I think that some other countries handle some things better than we do (though I don't necessarily think that we should or could emulate them). There are probably also lots of things that we could do better than anyone else if we tried, but we don't try.
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Many people understand that this country is not perfect, but right now I challenge you to present a country that is better than us overall. The French for example: they can't stop complaining about how they are unbiased and support human rights. But perhaps they forget how they rape the land in the middle east...how they treat Muslim immigrants...perhaps they forget how they butchered a million Algerian Muslims - both directly and indirectly just a little while ago.
Also, people don't understand the difference between complaining and making a difference. To me the complainers fade away. They are the ones that don't vote, and if they do, that's where their political involvement ends. They don't know a single thing about (neo)economics, domestic issues, and foreign policies and feel that the one article they read in USA Today has qualified them to make lengthy speeches by the water coolers at work. In the end of the day, there is no record of their accomplishments.
-Rudey
--I've always wanted to meet someone in the French Foreign Legion.