sábado, 18 de abril de 2015

"American patriotism"

When we watch a movie, a music video, imagines of Google or even when we read traveler experiences in The U.S we can see the “American patriotism”.  Clear examples of this lover for your country are the Independence Day of The United State, respect of their military and even artists dressed in costumes decorated with the colors of the American flag


This is just a funny paradox because the “American patriotism” is just a disguise of an “American nationalism”, we must not confuse these two words, because a patriot is one who admires the culture of their country, respect and defends, but also understand that his nation has so many faults as virtues, belief that his nation can always improve and he sees peoples from the other countries as equals. But a nationalist loves and believes that his country is superior to others, just think of the virtues and justifies all the mistakes of your country.


Also the American nationalism is only sub-culture, because they don’t respect other American races, just they love their corresponding culture, for example an white American believes only the part of White American is the best in the world, this same happens to Black American, Latin American, etc.



So, while this nationalist thinking prevails, which is hidden under this "love" for the nation, racism and intolerance American will not disappear and continue this abuse The US to other countries and among themselves.



5 comentarios:

  1. I always talking about of exaggerated patriotism of Americans, but because I always thought of them as nationalists. Your post making a difference changed my life, without exaggeration, and I confess that now I have respect for the American patriotism.

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  3. Now i can understand the difference between patriotism and nationalist that i didn't know, i'd like to see that most of people in the US are patriotism that it's like a good way to respect and love your own country respecting also others but nationalist is just the bad part and exaggeration of "loving" your country but actually it's not loving your country at all, because the country includes all the people that shares the same culture and place to live but they exclude other just because of their races, or because in some way they're different to what nationalist think it's right but an American Patriotism it's a good way to be proud of their own country

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  5. Well, I think that American Patriotism is just part of the U.S culture. As the fireworks the 4th of July, the Barbecue, and McDonals (just kiddin' with this one).

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