How can you be proud of your country if you left it due to poor quality of life or lack of opprotunities.?

Question

How can one wave that countries flag if it was a horrible country?
How can you hang onto a culture that didn't yield well-being?
Can you be proud of a country that sucked, so you left?
If I left my country, I'd treat it like an ex-girlfriend (only visiting every 4 years or so and never talking about it!)

Answer 1

Very interesting question...

Im particularily interested in what mexican immigrants think. Why are you waving the Mexican flag during marches when that country didnt offer you a chance to succeed?

Answer 2

I don't know. I was born in Canada which (warts and all) is still a wonderful country.

My grandparents all came from Scotland, and they left due to a lack of economic opportunity after WW 1.

They should be proud of all the accomplishments of Scottish people in every field of human endeavour. And they were. And I am--even though I have never set foot in the place.

You are who you are. I live in Taiwan now, but I will never stop being a proud Canadian just because I don't live there anymore.

Take it from me. Immigration is a trauma. I'm a teacher who can't read. Toddlers speak better Chinese than I do.

It is quite common for people, while having an understandably hard time adjusting to a different way of life, to compare their new home hegatively to where they came from.

Answer 3

Tell me about it. There is however a deeply ingrained sense of belonging. It is your heritage, your original home, your upbringing, your culture.

You can leave, but you'll always come back (or claim it as yours). We all need to tie ourselves to something. We all want a place to belong to. That country the person left will always be there waiting for them. They like that. In the back of their minds they know that.

Therefore they still "belong" there.

Answer 4

Excellent observation.

Answer 5

apparently they are proud of their ETHNIC heritage.....like they had a choice of ethnicity,lol.