SmoothCriminal, on 26 July 2015 - 03:03 AM, said:
Have you ever wondered why Americans are so adamantly patriotic about their state and their country?
Country? sure. State? not really. Texans are really the only ones you hear talk about how awesome they are because they are Texans. Southerners are can be prideful of being from "the south", but not really about their individual states.
Hell, people are more proud of the style of BBQ their area of the country has.
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Americans have supported the confederate flag despite its association with slavery, racism, war and bloodshed - because it offers some of the only identity and history available to the people of North America.
This is bizarrely wrong for many reasons. The confederate flag is a southern US thing. not a north american thing. and the history of North America is MUCH more than the US civil war. Honestly your comment here just screams ignorance.
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As mentioned above - no one knows what it is to be American because there is no set culture/history/belief that is unilaterally "American"?
again, this screams ignorance too. Of course the US has a culture and a history.
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Challenge the next person to offer an argument to this - complete the sentence:
"I am American because..."
"...I was born in the USA."
That is all it takes to be an American.