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What do foreigners think of America's cult like Patriotism?

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What do foreigners think of America's cult like Patriotism?
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RE: What do foreigners think of America's cult like Patriotism?
March 23, 2018 at 5:32 pm
(March 23, 2018 at 5:16 pm)Khemikal Wrote: It's a false and hollow patriotism that loves home simply for being home, rather than for being a good home.  When we lose sight of the necessity that civic virtue be leveraged for that greater cause, it becomes chauvinism, jingoism.   Sloganeering and merchandising opportunities.  Pretext for war.  The object of a perverted fetish, ultimately self-serving and so...fundamentally unpatriotic.  

The types of people many seem to be thinking of, are not patriots.  They are people who employ the language of patriotism as a disguise for their own hatred of others..not any love of country or countrymen.

/twocents

I dunno. I still root for the Vikings even during years when we legitimately suck. Chauvinism? Jingoism? Wut?
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