This is a characteristic we tend to associate with Americans and I wondered if it were true. Explanations as to why/why not would also be welcome. Thank you.
2006-09-05 01:48:42 · 19 answers · asked by jusdinoliver 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
i think all americans love america....who wouldn't, when u really dissect what freedoms we have vs. other countries..??. we are definitely not patriotic;mainly because there are no real causes for us to stand together for. i would be willing to bet, if the politicians would stop making fools of us to the world population, and some major drama were to unfold, americans would join united, because regardless of how we view our politics, WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY, we just hate how it's run....lol mate
2006-09-05 02:00:17 · answer #1 · answered by dad of dallas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a very good question. I have always felt that I was patriotic but lately I'm not very proud to be an American. I don't agree with how our government has handled our economy or the war. I know that in much of the world we are thought of a rude, loud and demanding, and having traveled a lot I see this often. I do my best to be a good citizen, I vote, I educate myself on current events and I do my best to advance better relations between countries. If this is patriotism than I guess I am patriotic.
2006-09-05 01:57:11 · answer #2 · answered by i have no idea 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not American, but from all my American friends that I've made I would say the country is still pretty split. The Republicans tend to be more "patriotic" than the Democrats...or at least the Republicans seem to feel the need to defend every war they ever fought as if their lives depended on it. Democrats you can reason with, but Republicans are set in stone both when it comes to religion and patriotism....it's like the rest of the world doesn't exist and all that matters is what they feel and believe.
We welcome anyone with open minds up here in Canada...maybe that is why people are flocking to get in. Politics don't mean a damn up here. People just want to live in peace, be taken care of, and for the most part tolerate cultures of every kind unless they come to make trouble. :~)
2006-09-05 01:55:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are made up of people from all nationalities. I believe that all people are individualist.
Some are patriotic and some are not like the men who blew up the Oklahoma City Murrow Federal Building. 4/19 took place before 9/11.
If I can believe that people from other countries are individualist:; why can't the people from those countries think that we are people of different opinions?
WE are not zombies here with a meeting place that repeats over and over again the same words "You are patriots, etc.
"I hope you understand, I hope you understand, I hope you understand"(a slap across my face and the words snap to) sorry I was at the mental warp place too long. LOL
There are people here who think the British are not known for their sense of humor. Should I think that all British people have no sense of humor OR that they are individualist? We do get some of the British comedy shows.
I think that I am a patriot. There are some who may say they are not but you come here to try and do us in and THEY will defend there land for there is "No place like home" as Dorothy said in The Wizard of Oz.
2006-09-05 02:21:37 · answer #4 · answered by Pepsi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I have never owned a flag and am kind of horrified when ever I have been in a situation where mildly hysterical patriotism is being displayed. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate my country, far from it, but I feel like I don't owe it blind, unquestioning loyalty either. Especially when it is officially doing the wrong thing. America is far from perfect. I wisely keep these viewpoints to myself most of the time.
Most of the people I know just blindly back anything America, as a nation does.
My ancestors first set foot on this continent in the 1690s. I am hard core American.
2006-09-05 01:57:37 · answer #5 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's really hard to make a broad-brush statement about ALL Americans, simply because it's such an enormous space physically and filled with such a diverse population.
It may just be my perception, or at least my change in perception as I get older; but it seems to be that Americans are becoming more Balkanized -- identifying more strongly with their particular race or country of origin than with the idea of being "American". There are so many "hyphenated Americans", as president Teddy Roosevelt put it: African-Americans, Latino-Americans, and so on. Though I suppose the fact that Roosevelt noticed this same trend 100 years ago tells us that it's always been an issue. But I also remember hearing how in my great-grandparents' day, when they emigrated here from Germany, they worked VERY hard to assimilate and to instill in their children that they were AMERICANS now -- even to the point of converting from Judaism to Christianity in order to fit in...
2006-09-05 02:00:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have to echo the other comments and say that it depends upon your definition of "patriotic." If you're simply asking about people loving their country, I'd say that most Americans do, to some extent or another. If you're asking about people waving the flag on July 4th? Not too many.
In the past few years, "patriotism" has been used aggressively, and has taken on the question of whether or not you do/should disagree with the current administration and its policies. The country is fairly well split when it comes down to that, with one side saying that it's patriotic to support the President and what he does, with the other side saying that it's patriotic to disagree with the President based upon what the country stands for.
2006-09-05 03:34:16 · answer #7 · answered by ArcadianStormcrow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with America (if you see it as a problem), is that everyone here is not "American". One may argue as much as they want, but for people like my parents, they are not Americans. They do not believe in things like "valentines day", "Mothers day", "Fathers day"....etc.
From my own experience, I would have to say that you would find more patriotic people towards the southern and Western parts of the country. I remember my first time in TX, and they (texans), only buy American made goods like Fords, Chevrolets, Dodge.
You see them with their confedrate flags on their pick up trucks.
I dont think I'm very Patriotic. The only great national past time I affiliate myself with in the United States is the great sport of Football (not futbol).
It is in some ways nice to see how people come together in tragic times, but I think we should all be that way, always!
2006-09-05 02:00:05 · answer #8 · answered by Eltownzjem 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As somebody who spends a honest volume of time in the two the U. S. and Europe, i might say that Europeans are only as patriotic as human beings, yet they are not as in-your-face and glaring approximately it. we don't sense the could desire to pledge allegiance to slightly colored fabric, or carry it outdoors our residences like we desire reminding which united states we are in. Europeans are completely satisfied being proud of their united states in a quiet way, that would not become some style of 'who may be the main patriotic' opposition that sees human beings frowned on if their flag isn't the dimensions of a small abode (an extreme occasion, yet my grandparents, who stay interior the U. S. yet are British, have been as quickly as asked via a sparkling neighbour why there grew to become into no US flag outdoors their abode, with the inference that in the event that they weren't prepared to invest in one they could desire to evaluate leaving the country), or in the event that they dare say something destructive approximately their united states. in this appreciate i think of considered one of those patriotism you notice in Europe is greater clever than that interior the U. S. - as much as they could whinge approximately politicians etc, this is totally uncommon certainly to work out every physique interior the U. S. media criticising the country, and in the event that they did there may be outrage, yet in Europe there's a reasonably wholesome way of life of persons with the flexibility to criticise the country they stay in with out being shouted down for even attempting. In Europe we recognize that patriotism isn't the comparable as blind attractiveness of each and every thing your united states does and stands for as remarkable, some thing some human beings have not particularly grasped.
2016-10-01 08:18:54 · answer #9 · answered by lutz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most are, the major difference is the level of patriotism and the methods, lots of people do not agree on HOW to be patriotic.
some think that they are being patriotic when they question our leaders.
and that, in my opinion is the best form.
our govt was built upon the principal that we can wrest power from the govt if they are acting like imbiciles.
2006-09-05 01:55:02 · answer #10 · answered by digital genius 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋