pizzahut451 said:
So everyone who is patriotic and proud of their country is blind, hateful, ignorant and xenophobic ??? ''Not to mention that as living conditions improve and more and more people will get past their own ignorance they'll start rejecting the restrictive, authoritan elements of their culture''
This is the part where i got sick of your arrogance and ignorance so i stopped reading. This was simply too much for me. And the fact that you come from East (it says on your profile your from Romania) makes all of this even sadder. |
Arogant? Maybe. Ignorant? I don't think so.
First of all I never said that "everyone who is patriotic and proud of their country is blind, hateful, ignorant and xenophobic". I'd much rather call a person who is xenophobic "blind, hateful and ignorant".
There's nothing wrong with beeing patriotic, I guess (but in excess it can certainly make a person bling to their countrie's/culture's faults), but objectively speaking not all people can be proud of their countries and their cultures (I certainly wouldn't say that peopel from thrid world countries have any heritage to be proud of).
Irregardless of where one's born, one doesn't have to limit his/herslef to the place/culture they where born in. Blindly following and supporting a culture that has more faults than positive elements is not a virtue. You can't improve yourself and the world around you if you don't think critically and support a country/culture just because you were born into it.
From your comments I take it you fall into the blind patriot category. Funny that you call me ignorant.
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