So how patriotic are you?

[Strike Witch]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Manco]

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

[Mac Sirloin]

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]

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

[Mac Sirloin]

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

[Bullet Magnet]

That's normal in Scotland.

[OddjobAbe]

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]

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]

10

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

[STM]

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]

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]

10

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

No. These people aren't my lot.

[Dynamithix]

Finnish drunks seem very patriotic.

Meh, I'm not.

[Daxter King]

5.6

America is pretty cool.

[Dixanadu]

Hard to be patriotic when the country is divided.

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

[Wings of Fire]

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

[STM]

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

[Wings of Fire]

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

[STM]

I'm 1/2 Irish, dear.

[Scraby]

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]

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

[Ridg3]

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]

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]

I'm so patriotic I stab immigrants.

Alcar....

[used:)]

1-2

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

[Dixanadu]

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

You forgot the fact all Protestant women are ugly.

[STM]

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