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So she was proud to be an American as a child, went to Harvard and until just recently was not proud to be an American??? |
What about that troubles you?
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I'm not proud to be an American.
Seems like a patently silly thing to be proud of. Kind of like being proud I have a nose. |
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K Den... Good luck working through that.
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I think there's a difference between saying you don't feel blessed (or lucky) to be an American and saying that you feel that this country has fallen short of its ideals (whatever you believe them to be). After all, wasn't the entire Reagan revolution about restoring pride in America?
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Based on my experience, it was during the Regan Administration that people in our allied countries (UK, France, etc...) began to question our national policies and grumble about them. Bush the senior ushered in the era of open dissent, Clinton ratcheted the rhetoric down a few notches and turned the focus to simply laughing at the President (what is is, etc...) while Bush the junior put us over the top in terms of both hatred of America and making a laughingstock of the office of the President abroad. |
Nothing to do with this thread, but I completely disagree about "pride"
It's got nothing to do with how others regard you. By definition, it's how you regard yourself. Whether you choose to base your self-regard on how others regard you is optional. But the word refers only to self-regard. |
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Using an internal gauge separate from the outside world seems less like pride and more like Ego. |
That's what my heart yearns for now - love and pride.
That's what my heart yearns for now - love and pride. Start your journey early or maybe later get your boots on Look for rainbows it's cloudy Take your hairdryer blow them all away. In you I've found a story I want to keep hearing. In you I see all colours not just black or white. In you I find a reason and hope for all dreamers You are my fill you're my supply of love and pride. That's what my heart yearns for now - love and pride. . . . Knowing sensing seeing eating sleeping that's just being. Touching testing loving wanting and taking more love and more pride. In you I've found a story I want to keep hearing. . . . I'm taking it round the world - some love and pride. That's what my heart yearns for now - love and pride. . . . That's what my heart yeanis for now - love and pride. . . . :D And now back to your regularly scheduled thread... |
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