Quote:If you do not pride yourself, why would you even strive to protect your nation?
Without pride, a nation will gladly sell itself out, it will be nothing more than a nation corrupt, and untrustworthy. A proud nation, on the other hand, you trust to be honest, you can trust to face hardships.
A nation without pride will be nothing more than prey to nations with pride, my friend. You can only make world worse by claiming that the nations ought not to be proud of themselves.
And surely, in todays world, where nationalism is being actively attacked by governments, being a nationalist amounts to nothing more than facing more hardships, and perhaps even going against your own government.
It's not pride in yourself because of accomplishments that you've made, it's finding pride in something that's not an accomplishment at all. Being born in a country is not an accomplishment and shouldn't be treated as such. I strive to perfect the world, not just my nation, because I believe in equality and a sense of a "greater good" not because I'm convinced that I'm somehow better than everyone else because my parents had sex in America.
There's nothing beneficial at looking at your flag and the nation military and saying that you're proud to be apart of a disgusting imperialistic regime. I don't find pride in being an America and I generally find people to be stupid and useless, but together we can all strive for a better world, not just as a singular nation but as the human race.
Right now, I'm not proud to be an American because I have no power in my country. My vote is meaningless and the corporations have so far infected the political process that the rights of the people take a back seat to corporate interests. Besides that, we bloat our military budget so that we can remain a world super-power while giving our children a severely deficient education, poor health care, minimal jobs, and lack-luster benefits to assist the needy.
The nationalists of America play right into the hand of the government so, there's absolutely no reason to affiliate myself with them as they've allowed themselves to be deluded and ignore the atrocities committed by my country. This isn't something new of nationalists though, nationalists are always the first one to justify the atrocities of a shoddy government because they're more susceptible to upholding statism.
