why are Americans so patriotic. i.e making kids sall that stupid "i pledge my alliegence to the flag" stuff.
you only have 200 years of history (native americans have theirs, but thats got very little to do with US), you are a total melting pot of all different races and religeons. You have no real identity. How can you get patriotic about a country which has no defining characteristic - even your constitution has no defining characteristic, because everytime a new generation disagrees, they just do ammendments.
Im English, but we would never considor singing "god save the queen" every day, or making our kids worship the flag. We can sometimes be critical of our country, and see the patriotism of the USA a bit cringeworthy and odd.
Why are people so manically patriotic?
PS - Lots of you will say dont generalise, its not all americans - but please, I know this already, I am talking about on the whole in relation to other western countries level of patriotism!
2007-08-07
07:18:25
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someguysomewhere
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