Are you proud to be an American?

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What are you doing on July fourth?
I've got fireworks and ribs.

[macbone]

Good to see you, /. =)

One of the drawbacks of living overseas, coupled with my horrible memory, is missing out on things like BBQ on the 4th and no school on Thanksgiving Day. We still get together in November with friends to celebrate Thanksgiving and exchange gifts and sing carols on Christmas, but I miss things like Memorial Day and Independence Day. (We have similar days in HK, too, but they're mostly celebrated by demonstrations and lots of tourists clogging up the MTR.)

[nietzsche]

YEs.

I will be having tacos and breaking pinatas.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

BBQ, prolly get shitfaced. Have a good time.

I hope that's not exclusive to the U.S.

-TG

[KoolBak]

Hangin with family / friends, little parade, little festival, cool car show....food / beer....good times.....

[Army of GOD]

At least I know I'm free...






















...which is a funny line because now the opposite is true. I highly doubt I'm free.

[universalchiro]

ABSOLUTELY !!
Even Super heroes live in America. After all it is called the Justice League of America.

And when America comes to your land to free you of tyranny, we don't ask for land for compensation to get rich, we ask just for our dead soldiers to have a grave plot. Well, that's how it use to be, now we do ask for oil but as great as this nation is or was, the future is hyperinflation. We are Rome in the later years. Spend spend spend leads to debt debt debt. Buy storable dehydrated food with this paper fiat currency. For the time is near of a global financial melt down with a collapse of the dollar.

[strike wolf]

America has her problems but the same can be said of any relationship. I mean we fight and she may occasionally pass stupid laws or make decisions that I do not always agree with and now and then I've caught her looking at my phone or computer to see who I have been chatting with but at the end of the day, I still come back home to her. So yeah. I am still proud to be an American.

[Jmac1026]

ABSOLUTELY !!
Even Super heroes live in America. After all it is called the Justice League of America.

And when America comes to your land to free you of tyranny, we don't ask for land for compensation to get rich, we ask just for our dead soldiers to have a grave plot. Well, that's how it use to be, now we do ask for oil but as great as this nation is or was, the future is hyperinflation. We are Rome in the later years. Spend spend spend leads to debt debt debt. Buy storable dehydrated food with this paper fiat currency. For the time is near of a global financial melt down with a collapse of the dollar.

You really shouldn't compare late era-Rome (and I assume you mean the Western half of the Empire, because the Eastern half survived and thrived for another 800 years or so) to America, since the reason the Roman Empire fractured and fell apart was that it ran out of lands to conquer and use for plantations.

[mrswdk]

Hurr, nationalism.

[Metsfanmax]

At least I know I'm free...

[notyou2]

Please define American, because technically all americans are americans.

Anywho, I am going to celebrate the 4th on the 1st in Canada.

Happy 4th to my US friends.

[danfrank666]

[quote="notyou2"]Please define American, because technically all americans are americans.

And some get there own genome. That`s an EXTRA RIGHT. You see, i am not classified . There`s not a month we spend learning about "our" history. In fact "our" history , if we stay the course , will be stricken and never learned. If that`s the american referred to in the poll . Then NO. i am not proud.

[Army of GOD]

I never understood being proud about one's nationality.

I'm proud of things that I've achieved, e.g. winning a sporting event, getting a job, etc.

Being proud about being from a country is like being proud that you can shit your pants.

Oh and its not like America is the bastion of freedom that it once was pre-Cold War. Now that we stuck our fingers in every foreign country, the US govt has to cover its own ass by limiting freedoms of its citizens. At least its not China though...

[mrswdk]

What, because in China there's a guy in sunglasses sitting in every office, reporting all subversive mutterings to the local security bureau and making people disappear?

[notyou2]

What, because in China there's a guy in sunglasses sitting in every office, reporting all subversive mutterings to the local security bureau and making people disappear?

They have that there too????

[Metsfanmax]

I never understood being proud about one's nationality.

I'm proud of things that I've achieved, e.g. winning a sporting event, getting a job, etc.

Being proud about being from a country is like being proud that you can shit your pants.

Well, be sure to subtract from your pride all the factors that it made it possible to win that sporting event or get that job, like being born with reasonable athletic drive and skill, or being born into a middle-class white family.

[pimpdave]

Yes AoG, you should feel GUILTY about things! f*ck you! That's on behalf of all the stuff you didn't do! That's who said that "f*ck you", not me! It wasn't me who said it, I was just pointing out that the universe thinks "f*ck you" at you because of all that stuff like being born that you didn't control. YOU SON OF A BITCH

[betiko]

i'll be celebrating the 4th on the 14th!

[Army of GOD]

I never understood being proud about one's nationality.

I'm proud of things that I've achieved, e.g. winning a sporting event, getting a job, etc.

Being proud about being from a country is like being proud that you can shit your pants.

Well, be sure to subtract from your pride all the factors that it made it possible to win that sporting event or get that job, like being born with reasonable athletic drive and skill, or being born into a middle-class white family.

Regardless, its something I've done. It required work and effort and I put them in.

Being an American requires no effort whatsoever.

[notyou2]

I never understood being proud about one's nationality.

I'm proud of things that I've achieved, e.g. winning a sporting event, getting a job, etc.

Being proud about being from a country is like being proud that you can shit your pants.

Well, be sure to subtract from your pride all the factors that it made it possible to win that sporting event or get that job, like being born with reasonable athletic drive and skill, or being born into a middle-class white family.

Regardless, its something I've done. It required work and effort and I put them in.

Being an American requires no effort whatsoever.

If you're Cuban and want to become a US citizen, it requires a great deal of effort.

[mrswdk]

Yeah, but they don't want it because they get free healthcare and stuffs.

[Army of GOD]

I never understood being proud about one's nationality.

I'm proud of things that I've achieved, e.g. winning a sporting event, getting a job, etc.

Being proud about being from a country is like being proud that you can shit your pants.

Well, be sure to subtract from your pride all the factors that it made it possible to win that sporting event or get that job, like being born with reasonable athletic drive and skill, or being born into a middle-class white family.

Regardless, its something I've done. It required work and effort and I put them in.

Being an American requires no effort whatsoever.

If you're Cuban and want to become a US citizen, it requires a great deal of effort.

But they shouldn't be proud of being American, they should be proud that they bettered their situation. Countries are such an artificial concept and nationalism only strengthens them.

[JBlombier]

lol @ patriot thread... This is calling for copycat threads, but the other nationalities don't have as many members on CC per nationality. I might take this thread to De Veroveraars Club about the Dutch, just to troll the Belgians.

[notyou2]

ABSOLUTELY !!
Even Super heroes live in America. After all it is called the Justice League of America.

And when America comes to your land to free you of tyranny, we don't ask for land for compensation to get rich, we ask just for our dead soldiers to have a grave plot. Well, that's how it use to be, now we do ask for oil but as great as this nation is or was, the future is hyperinflation. We are Rome in the later years. Spend spend spend leads to debt debt debt. Buy storable dehydrated food with this paper fiat currency. For the time is near of a global financial melt down with a collapse of the dollar.

Superman evolved in Canada.