How Do You Feel About Your Country?

[superunknown]

Originally posted by CurtSibling
There is something agelsee and undeniably British in London, a constant vibrance of the greatest city in the World.

The greatest city in the world is Rome! Urbs Aeterna. Caput Mundi.

 

[ZultanofZex]

To love my country one has to hate the regime

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by superunknown

The greatest city in the world is Rome! Urbs Aeterna. Caput Mundi.

I have much for love for Rome too.
Forever the greatest empire the world will ever see.

 

[Remorseless]

I didn't vote, because I really don't want to associate with people who don't believe their country is the best. I am upset by the bashing of other countries -- I think every country has good and bad aspects, even communist dictatorships like Cuba and China (not N. Korea, okay got me there). I've been to a few other countries, like Mexico, Canada, Germany (back when it was West Germany), France, Luxemburg, Kuwait, even Iraq.

But I do live in the USA, and I really like it. Yeah, we ain't perfect, yeah, we've got some real chuckleheads who strut around thinking every other country is crap. Currently, we do have a big military, but that's not our entire history. Until World War II (1931-45), we had very small military forces. We may like to bomb people, but we don't conquer countries, a small but significant point.
We have an incredible variety of terrain, from mountains and deserts to forests, swamps and the plains (where I live). People seize too quickly on the minority of intolerant jerks who spout off on CNN. Most people in America really don't give much of a hoot in hell about what color you are, what religion you are. There is, to be fair, a ridiculous bias about people who like to have sex with people of the same sex. But we're working on it. I really think homosexuals have it a bit easier than fat people in this country, but that's just my opinion.
What I love best about my country, for all its pigheadedness and narrowmindedness, is how REPRESENTATIVE we are of the entire world. Sure, in Brazil, they might be a bit more tolerant (love the ladies in those dental floss bikinis as well) but I would defy you to find a country with as many different religions. Name it, we've got it. I would defy you to name a country with as many representatives of different "races" (quote marks because I still think people with black/brown/whatever color skin are all humans, not races), or people from as many different cultures and countries as exists in this country. Do we have violence? Sure. Is there intolerance? Sure. Does that exist outside of the borders of my country? F*****' A it does, and it exists because people aren't perfect and they bring their tired old prejudices with them to this country. I'm not blaming other countries for our problems, don't get me wrong, but what I mean is that we allow people to be themselves here, and face it, people aren't saints.
A final point: what may seem to be arrogance to people outside the States is actually a deeply-held belief by citizens of this country that we do indeed, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, represent the last best hope for mankind. We don't want to conquer the world, we want to make it all a democractic-free market planet...to let individuals decide what to read, who to vote for, whether or not to worship and to worship what they want, to be able to own a bit of land, have a house, raise a family and honor their culture. You may not agree with how we do that -- hell, we disagree about it most of the time -- but we really do have this child-like belief that if we work hard enough and try to be helpful, we'll make this planet a great place to live.

Uh, Mojo: there's articles in Maxim????

 

[Padma]

I have to go with switch here and say I live in the best country in the world. Do we have problems? Heck, yeah! Does it mean I think every other country is crap? Of course not! But I am a patriot, in the true (dictionary) meaning of the word. For 23 years I volunteered to put my life on the line in her defense.

@Curt: You're right. There is something about London ... the best way I can put it, after walking some of the streets, is: London is Britain!

And I felt the same type of feeling while walking the streets of Rome.

@Remorseless: You put it quite well, also.

 

[Zcylen]

Originally posted by superunknown

The greatest city in the world is Rome! Urbs Aeterna. Caput Mundi.

bate forte el mio cuore

 

[anarchywrksbest]

Northern Ireland? Its good! Apart from all that trying to kill eachother for the last century....

.....but still good!

 

[philippe]

Anarchy your sig is too big...

 

[nixon]

I love my country. I would die for my country.

 

[philippe]

Then do it Nixon!
J/k....
But hey we should all live on each country for at least a year then we can decide...

 

[Cloudyvortex]

Originally posted by Remorseless
I didn't vote, because I really don't want to associate with people who don't believe their country is the best. I am upset by the bashing of other countries -- I think every country has good and bad aspects, even communist dictatorships like Cuba and China (not N. Korea, okay got me there). I've been to a few other countries, like Mexico, Canada, Germany (back when it was West Germany), France, Luxemburg, Kuwait, even Iraq.

But I do live in the USA, and I really like it. Yeah, we ain't perfect, yeah, we've got some real chuckleheads who strut around thinking every other country is crap. Currently, we do have a big military, but that's not our entire history. Until World War II (1931-45), we had very small military forces. We may like to bomb people, but we don't conquer countries, a small but significant point.
We have an incredible variety of terrain, from mountains and deserts to forests, swamps and the plains (where I live). People seize too quickly on the minority of intolerant jerks who spout off on CNN. Most people in America really don't give much of a hoot in hell about what color you are, what religion you are. There is, to be fair, a ridiculous bias about people who like to have sex with people of the same sex. But we're working on it. I really think homosexuals have it a bit easier than fat people in this country, but that's just my opinion.
What I love best about my country, for all its pigheadedness and narrowmindedness, is how REPRESENTATIVE we are of the entire world. Sure, in Brazil, they might be a bit more tolerant (love the ladies in those dental floss bikinis as well) but I would defy you to find a country with as many different religions. Name it, we've got it. I would defy you to name a country with as many representatives of different "races" (quote marks because I still think people with black/brown/whatever color skin are all humans, not races), or people from as many different cultures and countries as exists in this country. Do we have violence? Sure. Is there intolerance? Sure. Does that exist outside of the borders of my country? F*****' A it does, and it exists because people aren't perfect and they bring their tired old prejudices with them to this country. I'm not blaming other countries for our problems, don't get me wrong, but what I mean is that we allow people to be themselves here, and face it, people aren't saints.
A final point: what may seem to be arrogance to people outside the States is actually a deeply-held belief by citizens of this country that we do indeed, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, represent the last best hope for mankind. We don't want to conquer the world, we want to make it all a democractic-free market planet...to let individuals decide what to read, who to vote for, whether or not to worship and to worship what they want, to be able to own a bit of land, have a house, raise a family and honor their culture. You may not agree with how we do that -- hell, we disagree about it most of the time -- but we really do have this child-like belief that if we work hard enough and try to be helpful, we'll make this planet a great place to live.

Uh, Mojo: there's articles in Maxim????

Remorseless, Remorseless, Remorseless!

I agree with you emphatically. It's not all good, but it is good nevertheless.

Don't worry over seperation anxieties, my Canuck and Kebek friends. It will pass. Just don't do what we did. There is nothing wrong with pride in one's province, so long as it isn't all consuming. Speaking of province, or state, pride; stop blaming Texas for Dubya'. Most here support him, but I don't anymore. And as far as I'm concerned, he's nothing but a damn Connecticut Yankee and a wannabe. We true Texans know that Saddam has weapons, but we want a smoking gun nonetheless. War is just gonna get more of us killed. Let the example of the Taliban be our defense against terror.

 

[Silverblade]

Of course it's the best country to live in. We got nice blond girls, a really good social infrastructure, high level of technology and did I mentioned that we have nice blond girls?

One thing that's a drawback with this country is the snow (or rather when the snow thaws).

Guessed what country it is already?

No? Too bad if u missed our lovely nice blond girls. Ok, it's SWEDEN

 

[West German]

My great Germany, the future sole superpower. Better than all other countries.

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by West German
My great Germany, the future sole superpower. Better than all other countries.

That sounds omniously familiar!

 

[Drewcifer]

I really have difficulty answering this question. The US is such a huge country. There are so many different regions that are so far away from each other and so culturally different from each other. People from abroad who have never been here talk about "American culture" or might say about our government "America thinks this or that". It is like averaging France and Sweden and Britain and Spain and Albania together and saying that the average is what they are all like. The US is like the European Union after 200 years of integration. As far as I can tell there is no such thing as American culture, rather a couple hundred (or thousand) American cultures that are put together to form a single, sprawling thing. When people either blindly love or blindy hate it they are deluding themselves and basing their thoughts on something that exists only in their minds, rather than the America that exists here on Earth. We have better presidents, and we have worse presidents. There have been terrible people who have done terrible things here. There have also been noble people who have done tremendous things for mankind. In my life I have seen 30+ states (as well as ten countries and three continents) and I cannot describe all the beautiful/noble/ugly/despicable/strange/thought provoking things I have witnessed in the US in a book, let alone a paragraph. Which, of course, is why I love living here. On the other hand some of my compatriots worry me.

 

[Pongui]

Originally posted by Richard III
Canada is a sad waste of great potential.

R.III

I think it's a very comfortable waste of great potential.

 

[Cimbri]

I love Denmark. For better or worse.
One should consider that we have survived as an independent country through thousands of years, despite being neighbours to Big Bad Germany and England, not to mention our brothers in Sweden and Norway.

Cimbri

 

[gerryandersson]

I love my country, maby not the way it is governd tho.

(Sweden)

 

[superunknown]

Originally posted by Cimbri
One should consider that we have survived as an independent country through thousands of years,
Cimbri

Maybe not thousands of years, but at least one thousand.

 

[Silverblade]

Originally posted by gerryandersson
I love my country, maby not the way it is governd tho.

(Sweden)

What's so wrong the way it's governed?

Myself find politics totally un-interesting, have always done so and probably will always do so.