What Patriotism Means to Me
In the af end pointath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the linked States we are seeing many forms of Patriotism. I was suprised to find when I researched this term that it had a negative feeling associated with it. I accept that patriotism is actively showing your stomach for your country, standing up for what you accept in, and fighting for our individual free will and independence.
I am proud of my country and I am not discredited to fly the American Flag. Many men and women have died to endow me the freedoms that I take for granted. I applaud their patriotism, and I give thanks them for giving me my way of life. I will support them in protecting my country. I will try to elect officials who believe in the issues I do, and who work for the better entire of all. I will not follow blindly and not quest questions or agree with everything my political sympathies says or does. I fancy that you, as an American citizen will learn about your government and actively support it, by voting, writing your congressmen, and making a difference for peace.
In standing up for what I believe in, I will not be ignorant of other people. I can be assertive in my beliefs without trying to call them on my fellow citizens. America stands for diversity and to have patriotism to her is to believe that all people have a sort out to believe in thier own system of values. I do not agree with Emma Goldman, who stated: Patriotism assumes that our globe is carve up into little spots, each one surrounded by an compact gate. Those who had the fortune of being born on some busy spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent...
Remember there can be a fine line between patrionism & nationalism, and sometimes (especially in the States) it can be hard to tell the difference. I call in this is an important point.
patriotism, throughout history, has been considered negatively beca drill patriotism is a term that applies toward blind, or unfounded nationalism. You can be proud of the US for whatever reasons you may have, but keep in object that UNTILL recently the intelligence activity was used with greatly different meaning. the intelligence agency changed meaning because of its use in the American media which is not objective.
the media benefits promoting support of wars other violence because it improves programmings ratings. by promoting an ethnocentric view of american politics, refuting any non-war arguments with VERY strong rhetoric to marginalize liberalism, and re-spinning the word patriot in a positive light the media serves to use its influential powers to sway the populus on issues it stands to profit from.
for everyone:
well-defined your eyes, not with one-sightedness, but with objective, educated, multi-cultural outline of issues, interests, and consequences.
good paper, but it shows unaccompanied examples of information from media propaganda which is anything but objective. a bit more, reserach of past, you would find that the word patriot does not reflect your self-proclaimed diversity and objective multi-cultural analysis of current issues.
Good use of a pursuasive arguement. I appreciated your explanation of patriotism stated in the introductory paragraph. You did a good job of embelishing on that description later in the paper. I like the Goldman quote, but would have felt more swayed to your arguement had you embelished upon her beliefs and then(prenominal) stated why you disagree. A counter arguement makes a overmuch stronger paper. You started to make a counter point, but stopped as well soon. Great work overall.
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