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Originally Posted by swinearefine
I'm not patriotic at all, and, living in a family of xenophobic nutjobs this leads to me literally having an argument about this every day. There's nothing wrong with being proud of your country, but you should be proud based on an objective look at what the country stands for and what it has achieved, not because you were born there. I'm from America and here it seems like there are only two perspectives on this matter: there are the xenophobes and the ethnophobes, and both of them annoy the sh*t out of me and neither of them have any idea what they're talking about. I don't really consider myself as belonging to any nationality and I see myself just as a person. I like America, I realize it has been very socially backward and hypocritical and its people are overall some of the most ignorant in the world, but I enjoy living here.
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So basically, you would like to live in a land with loads of other individuals with no common social fabric encompassing shared values, aspirations, moral codes, ethics, language, etc? How
exactly does that work in practice?