Patriotism Response

In response to Lyndsey - full post here

Patriotism is bad when it prevents you from progressing forward because you are so caught up on your country being the best. Also, I do not think you can be proud of being an American. What can you be proud of? Can you be proud that your heart beats? Can you be proud that you can breathe? Can you be proud of the fact that you worked for years to create something or to save up money for something? I think you can only be proud of the last one; you can only be proud of something that you accomplished with varying degrees of work. You, therefore, cannot be proud of the mere chance of your birth location; nor can you be proud of ethnicity, skin colour, or hair colour - you did not work for those things.