Do You Love Your Country?

sadly things like this only multiply over time. i have witnessed it with my own eyes.

 

I love my hometown and city more than the entire country. Because it is familiar, comfortable, and wonderful.

 

Can't argue with that, but that proves that the article is exaggerated.

It would have been better if it said something like 2020 than 2009. Would have had a much stronger point.

"This could happen in the future unless we stop it" is better than "this sometimes happens in the present and we can't do anything about it... oh well, let's masturbate instead".

 

but all those things have already happened. and i assure you similar things happen on a daily basis all over america that just dont make the news.

 

this.

I hate when people disrespect the flag, but as much as it makes me sound like an evil prick, I would have rather that last plane on 9/11 hit the capitol building instead of the pentagon

I'd rather politicians had died instead of soldiers.

 

my whole point is,in my eyes,in my lifetime the culture,laws and the way the laws are enforced have changed drastically for the worse.

like i said,i love my country but not what its become.no way to make you understand unless you were 20 years older and a life long resident,but then i might not have too.

 

I love what my country could be but I detest what its criminal government/corporate alliance, enabled by an apathetic, willfully ignorant population, has turned it into. That I have to fund through taxes two of the biggest criminal organizations (state and federal) makes me party to it and that burns my ass big time.

 

I love Portland Maine. I have grown to be okay with my hometown in Connecticut.

But, land boarders are arbitrary, as well as countries.

HHB and SF, same here!

 

No, I do not love a random yet arbitrary piece of land. And no, I do not love a random culture that I happened to be born into. IMO patriottism is a lame excuse for insecurity and ignorance.

 

Do you feel "at home" in Holland?

 

Not in the traditional sense and not the whole country. Just where my friends and family are and if they would cross the border to Belgium that would be where I would feel 'at home'.

 

I love my country to death (Canada) and my character and laid back attitude can very much be attributed to my fellow Canadians, laid back laws, and surroundings. Canada fuckin rules! But I feel very similar to you about the homeland part. My family is from Ireland and I very very much intend to go back and live there once I have the money and means to do so. I would love to start a family and life over there someday. Put my family back where it came from.

 

You see, I think that makes the difference in your scenario.

I'm not saying that I disagree with your statement about patriotism, I'm just saying that some people get more attached to the place itself, and it's not necessarily their fault or weakness.

 

I don't think you understand the homeland part, not even close.

...and also, Canada doesn't exist. There is nothing north of the U.S., just ice and moose.

All Canadians are actually from Wisconsin, you people simply need to man up and admit it.

 

Home is where the heart is and such other clichés. In the end, people just can't let go and break free from our programmed minds and feelings. History is calling and unconsciously we answer.

 

Why do I not understand the homeland part? Dude seriously you need to come to Canada. You'd go "There is nothing that exists beneath this heaven on earth they call Canada. Beneath Canada is just the asshole of the earth. This place fuckin kills!" Seriously you'd dig it. EVERYBODY makes fun of Canada but I have never ever heard anybody who's actually spent a good amount of time here say one single bad thing about it. But I'm not really sure how serious you were in your post so. Yea, Canada's beautiful.

 

I think Americans make fun of Canada simply because they don't understand it. It really hurts me to hear such things being said as I hear everyday, mostly on the television. But I know they only do so out of ignorance. There is no way anybody could not like Canada. There's just no way.

 

Fuck yes

I love Texas

 

I love the way my country helps others countries,I love the land,the scenery,the people,


I hate the highway system and the winter weather though