sandandfoam
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Is it a good thing to love ones country?
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Do you love your country?
- Thread starter sandandfoam
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It's just where I live.
Why, necessarily?
I think it depends on the form that love takes. If it's nothing more than jingoism, sure, that's negative. But I don't think that it's necessarily bad for a person to be emotionally invested in where they live, or for them to think that one country feels more like home than all the others.
It's more like relief, just glad I don't live elsewhere.
If it takes the form of excessive patriotism, then no. I'd consider that love that is a form of hatred.
I like it!
I could tolerate Canuckistan too.
Student of X
Paradigm Shifter
Love the land, the life, the people. I don't necessarily love the social norms or the politics.
E. Nato Difficile
Active Member
It's the last refuge of a scoundrel, but there's ample parking.
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Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
I love the Mediterranean, I love hummus, I like local cold beer, I especially love to mix the three.
I love Hebrew slang mixed with Arabic words, I love the mountains of history and archaeology, I love the directness of the people, and the sense that someone is going to stick up for you.
I love Hebrew slang mixed with Arabic words, I love the mountains of history and archaeology, I love the directness of the people, and the sense that someone is going to stick up for you.
Mathematician
Reason, and reason again
Yes....
whqt? Babylon/united states?
its okay.
i dont love it. People lived here before the country existed. The country is just government. suppose it works, but my allegiance isn't to the government but i look at it more of a side attraction that is occasionally oppressive.
Depends on how far you are willing to take that love
.Personally, I dont like my country.
Could be, but I'd say it's the country that feels most like home.
Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
I really like a lot of countries, and can imagine living quite happily in any number of locales around the world. Some countries do some things better than the US, and we do some things better than they do.
I live in the "country" of Texas. (I say that tongue in cheek.) I am not a native of Texas, but I have grown to truly love and appreciate this beautiful, diverse, and dynamic state - just about everything about it, but most of all, the people, who are some of the hardest working and positive people I have ever met anywhere. I love my little town and am very proud of the way the town has come together and rebuilt after some very hard economic blows about twenty years ago.
But I also love Virginia, and North Carolina, and Maryland, and of course my beloved Louisiana. And every time I travel throughout the US (just got back from visiting family in the Midwest for example) I am struck by the vast beauty of this land, and by just how much I like most of the people I meet.
Then - I feel that way about lots of places I've visited, and I know that the people who live there probably have much of the same affection for their home and their culture as I do for mine.
So - yes, I love my country - fiercely and passionately. That doesn't mean I think it's perfect. But love doesn't expect perfection, or demand it.
I live in the "country" of Texas. (I say that tongue in cheek.) I am not a native of Texas, but I have grown to truly love and appreciate this beautiful, diverse, and dynamic state - just about everything about it, but most of all, the people, who are some of the hardest working and positive people I have ever met anywhere. I love my little town and am very proud of the way the town has come together and rebuilt after some very hard economic blows about twenty years ago.
But I also love Virginia, and North Carolina, and Maryland, and of course my beloved Louisiana. And every time I travel throughout the US (just got back from visiting family in the Midwest for example) I am struck by the vast beauty of this land, and by just how much I like most of the people I meet.
Then - I feel that way about lots of places I've visited, and I know that the people who live there probably have much of the same affection for their home and their culture as I do for mine.
So - yes, I love my country - fiercely and passionately. That doesn't mean I think it's perfect. But love doesn't expect perfection, or demand it.
Erebus
Well-Known Member
I love much of the landscape. I love the folklore. I love the older architecture. I love how fascinating the history can be. I love the wildlife.
I don't love the monarchy. I don't love the politicians and the businesses. I don't love the youths, the adults or the elderly. I don't love the working class, the middle class or the upper class. I most definitely do not love the children.
I don't love the monarchy. I don't love the politicians and the businesses. I don't love the youths, the adults or the elderly. I don't love the working class, the middle class or the upper class. I most definitely do not love the children.
mycorrhiza
Well-Known Member
I consider it one of the best places to live, but I don't love Sweden. I love the environment and the culture here, but the country itself is only lines on a map.
Carpenter Rabbi
Member
What Willamena said. I don't necessarily love Canada, but it's a damn sight better than most other places on Earth.