The idea of national pride isn’t a bad by itself to me in the sense you’re proud to be associated with the people/culture/ideas/whatever of a region. However in this weird global future their isn’t much that makes one person nation uniquely a person of that nation. It’s this weird neoliberal slurpee where it’s all leveled out and the same wherever you go. A patriot to me is someone who understands the promise and ideals of a “nation” and demands it lives up to those things. If that “nation” has shitty ideals, a patriot challenges and tries to change them.
Exactly. Trying to flatten the patriotism of colonized people working for self-determination and the unquestioning acceptance of imperialism understood as “patriotism,” in the US is absurd.
I love my neighbors and I love my communities. I want to all the best for my “countrymen” (sadly even the dumbasses) as well people from other nations. I don’t give a damn about “American Empire®©”. There is nothing to be patriotic about making the world worse for other people in the name of a flag.
The idea of national pride isn’t a bad by itself to me in the sense you’re proud to be associated with the people/culture/ideas/whatever of a region. However in this weird global future their isn’t much that makes one person nation uniquely a person of that nation. It’s this weird neoliberal slurpee where it’s all leveled out and the same wherever you go. A patriot to me is someone who understands the promise and ideals of a “nation” and demands it lives up to those things. If that “nation” has shitty ideals, a patriot challenges and tries to change them.
Exactly. Trying to flatten the patriotism of colonized people working for self-determination and the unquestioning acceptance of imperialism understood as “patriotism,” in the US is absurd.