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OT: I remember being in the USA after those 9/11 terrorist attacks an they aired those "proud to be an American" commercials all the time... like they assume it
by honzzz 13y ago
OT: I remember being in the USA after those 9/11 terrorist attacks an they aired those "proud to be an American" commercials all the time... like they assume it's a good thing to be proud that you are a national of a certain nation. And maybe it is a good thing - I don't know. It just seemed strange to me. And all those American flags in front of regular family homes... do you still have those? You don't see that in Europe.
Please do not take this the wrong way. I kind of admire your patriotism... although I think it might prevent you from seeing (and fixing) bad things.
- Domenic_S 13y agoIf it weren't for some sense of pride, things would never be fixed. Think about your technology work -- you do a good job because you take some pride in it. American patriotism is the most public, but every country's citizens take some measure of pride in their country. We're the most public about everything (the home of myspace/facebook/twitter/instagram/the internet generally) so it makes sense to me that we're really public about patriotism.
- vacri 13y agoAmerican patriotism related to the wake of the 9/11 attacks seem to have broken more things than it fixed, both internally (eg TSA) and externally (eg the pride-wounded initiation of the Iraq war). It doesn't seem to have actually fixed much.
- eropple 13y ago> If it weren't for some sense of pride, things would never be fixed. I tend to think that those with the most outward expressions of that pride don't want things fixed.