in ur opinion what are some of the things that help keep the citizens or the people of a country together?

Question

In your answer, state whether or not u would include in ur list that the citizens should know someting about how and why the country was formed and how it got to be what it is. briefly explain ur position

Answer 1

I'd say that a national identity/culture/language or religion would help, but it really doesn't.

So, here are my examples for America:

1. Everyone sends their kids to little league, soccer, pop warner football, boy/girl scouts and camp. And that means you walk your own kid to the damn field or den or camp site, not hire some illegal nanny to manage your offspring for 24 hours a day. The fabric of our country was sewn with little stitches. Family time, community outings, social interaction, common interests and pursuits, traditions, the prevalence of individualism preserving the structure of a Great Society. Give first, then take. Share without reservation. Walk without fear. Speak your mind, not that of others. Be the strongest spoke in the wheel, and help others to aspire to be the same. What is built together far outlasts that achieved alone.

2. Adults whose parents took them to church, synagogue, mosque or temple or whatever, should do the same for their own children. Children should be exposed to faith in God, cost of sin, price of life, benefit of salvation, beauty of charity, peace of humanity, value of familiy and community, in other words, spend some TIME on faith and less MONEY on X-Box or I-Pod or some other thing that supplants true integration of MAN into SOCIETY.

3. Educate yourself and your family and friends. Don't be afraid to talk about religion, politics, social and economic events, don't be afraid to disagree or voice an opposing opinion to your friends, family and neighbors. Let them know where you stand, and learn and appreciate where they stand. Find the common threads, rather than the polar opposites. Know who you live with and who you live next to. Don't be politically correct but be humanely sensitive. Don't revise history but improve upon it. Get out of your jacuzzi or lazy boy, off your bar stool or computer and interact with the world, know it and let IT know you.

4. Ask tough questions of your representatives or candidates. And tell them what you want. Ask tough questions of yourself, and make the sacrifices you asked your parents to make or ask your children to make. 30%+ of your wages go to funding this large mechanism managed by one man. He needs help, so write your congressman, senator, president. Tell him where YOU want YOUR tax dollars spent and where you don't want them spent. VOTE, early and often. SPEAK your political will, even if it's taboo in your inner circle, break that inner circle.

5. Prioritize your life. God, Family, Country. There's a start. That's all people used to know. Remember, Paris Hilton's love life or the next American Idle (intentional spelling) will not enrich your life in the least. Don't outsource the living of your days above ground, or you won't have very many of them.

Lastly, be reasonable. Exercise conscience AND intelligence. Ask of others what you would be willing to do yourself and if you can't, then shut up. Don't break the law, don't ignore the law, and don't break the code that binds us all: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Works every time.

Answer 2

disasters like Katrina, 9/11. Sad, but it takes the hard times to bring folks together.