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Strike Witch 02-03-2011 06:37 AM

So how patriotic are you?
 
I was in Singapore recently and got to see Fox News for the first time. It got me thinking about Patriotism.

So I suppose, on a scale of 1 to 10, how patriotic towards your country are you? if you can't quantify it, then just do your best to explain I guess.


I'm really not very. I like my small town a bit, but a good chunk of Australia just irritates me and and the country's attitude sometimes pisses me off.

I feel like I wouldn't be very hard up having to leave for good tbh.

T-nex 02-03-2011 06:53 AM

Towards Denmark? ... probably 0...

Romania? .. hm... Maybe 1.

I don't really favor any countries x_x I actually don't feel like I belong to any nation either. Kind of a weird existence sometimes.

Sekto Springs 02-03-2011 06:59 AM

I'm about a 1-2 for the USA.
It's not even that I dislike the country really, it's just I don't see what about the USA there is to take pride in. I have no loyalty to it's people or it's government.

Bullet Magnet 02-03-2011 07:03 AM

1. I'd be prouder were I an immigrant.

Manco 02-03-2011 07:36 AM

0. We're all people, where we were born shouldn't change that.

Mac Sirloin 02-03-2011 07:41 AM

7. Canada is great, but there is room for improvement.

We could be running things if it weren't for various severe socioeconomic/geopolitical factors.

We're still pretty fucking excellent, though.

Wings of Fire 02-03-2011 07:54 AM

3. I am proud of Scotland for not voting Conservative. Also the people are nice.

Mac Sirloin 02-03-2011 07:58 AM

I'm primarily Scottish in my Heritage. I'm a little smug about that for no particular reason.

Bullet Magnet 02-03-2011 08:31 AM

That's normal in Scotland.

OddjobAbe 02-03-2011 08:34 AM

I couldn't be less patriotic. It's not as if I play a massive part in sustaining the country, and I really dislike our Government (especially since they're dismantling the NHS), so I see nothing to personally be proud of.

metroixer 02-03-2011 08:48 AM

I find patriotism to be a somewhat dumb concept that only leads countries into wars and pointless debates.

Not to say I hate living in America, I'm aware that it's a pretty nice place compared to many others. Yet if I had to leave it wouldn't really bug me, at all.

shaman 02-03-2011 09:31 AM

10

Support your lot or get the hell out of the stadium.

STM 02-03-2011 09:39 AM

I hate our government, an increasing generation of louts and drunks which much to my dismay, find myself being dragged into due to parties and shit. But I love our heritage, the specks of resistance against the ever-stagnating United Kingdom and I would happily fight for my countries freedom. So maybe a 7?

MeechMunchie 02-03-2011 09:43 AM

3.5.

The country itself can kiss my arse, I'm only here by blind chance. However, I sympathise with my fellow Brits since we're all in the same crap situation. I will defend my people at a push, but concepts like national honour are lost on me.

Wings of Fire 02-03-2011 09:47 AM

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10

Support your lot or get the hell out of the stadium.

No. These people aren't my lot.

Dynamithix 02-03-2011 09:48 AM

Finnish drunks seem very patriotic.

Meh, I'm not.

Daxter King 02-03-2011 11:33 AM

5.6

America is pretty cool.

Dixanadu 02-03-2011 11:45 AM

Hard to be patriotic when the country is divided.

Meh, I'm indifferent towards both British and Irish patriotism.

Wings of Fire 02-03-2011 11:58 AM

If I lived on the island of Eire I would probably be patriotic towards the side least likely to blow me up.

STM 02-03-2011 12:27 PM

Which is neither. My patriotism to Ireland extends further than my British pride does atm.

Wings of Fire 02-03-2011 12:42 PM

I don't think you can be patriotic towards a country you don't legally or culturally belong to, dear.

STM 02-03-2011 12:51 PM

I'm 1/2 Irish, dear.

Scraby 02-03-2011 01:01 PM

i hate my country's government,i dislike it cuz we are in a dept few billions of euros,and that the comunism fell apart,when we had comunism we were all ritch and we did not knew for the word poor or homeless,till capitalisam arrived and Tito died :(

Wings of Fire 02-03-2011 01:02 PM

Were you born there?
Have you lived there for an extensive period of your childhood?
Do you practice Irish traditions?

Ridg3 02-03-2011 01:33 PM

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If I lived on the island of Eire I would probably be patriotic towards the side least likely to blow me up.

Protestants are filthy scum with lots of petrol and milk bottles, Catholics are glorious.

Ireland is shit, not a damn thing to be proud of and our home city was given the City of Culture award recently, apparently bitterness is recognized by the great chair-board as culture. So, how proud am I of my country? None... I fucking hate the place.

MA 02-03-2011 02:03 PM

probably slightly under 8. i don't know what's going on politically half the time, and i feel indifferent towards the government or whatever. what i enjoy about the country i live in is its people, the fact that most of us are in the same boat and love to complain about it (myself included), but also because i'm used to this country and the way things work here. i feel uncomfortable and sometimes unsafe when i leave this country, even for a holiday.

but holy shit, the slang and the accents. i love our language.

Alcar 02-03-2011 07:30 PM

I'm so patriotic I stab immigrants.

Alcar....

used:) 02-03-2011 08:10 PM

1-2

I like some things about this country, but I think the things I dislike are far greater in number.

Dixanadu 02-04-2011 07:29 AM

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Protestants are filthy scum with lots of petrol and milk bottles, Catholics are glorious.

You forgot the fact all Protestant women are ugly.

STM 02-04-2011 07:58 AM

And they have...cough, women priests, hack. Oh Lordy.

Oh and WoF darling, I'm only second generation English, we only moved from Ireland some sixty years ago, we do practice Irish traditions just as we celebrate our Scottish heritage by wearing Wallace tartan at funerals and weddings. My father and brother also lay the bagpipes. I'm a Scottish as I am English and I'm more Irish so...HA ;)

Dixanadu 02-04-2011 08:35 AM

At least no one is Welsh.

Sekto Springs 02-04-2011 09:08 AM

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I'm a Scottish as I am English and I'm more Irish so...HA ;)

But you're still a douche.

STM 02-04-2011 09:16 AM

Oh yes, that's obvious. But I prefer, provocative to douche.

Wings of Fire 02-04-2011 09:45 AM

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At least no one is Welsh.

Don't get me started.

abe619 02-04-2011 09:56 AM

I don't mind having my head separated from my body to defend my homeland.
that's how patriotic i am.

Bullet Magnet 02-04-2011 10:39 AM

I mind.

Elmatto753 02-04-2011 12:36 PM

I like the people of England as quite a lot of us are witty, clever and downright ingenious. There are of course a load of douches who seem to live to be stupid (not in a funny way) and screw us up. Health and safety is OTT as well, but I am proud of the fact that we invented pretty much everything. In a shed.

Sekto Springs 02-04-2011 01:20 PM

I'm half British, my dad being a full blown limey cunt.
When push comes to shove, I'd rather throw in with you lot than the US.

Bullet Magnet 02-04-2011 01:43 PM

I particularly like Great Britain for its low incidence of rabies.

Elmatto753 02-04-2011 01:50 PM

That is certainly a benifit.