Do you love your country?

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Do you like where you live?

  • Yes

    Votes: 29 63.0%
  • No

    Votes: 17 37.0%

  • Total voters
    46
Dec 18, 2002
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#1
Lately I have been able to look around my city and see the buildings, the roads, the people. I can watch television and and see a few things I like. I read books by American authors and feel a kind of relation. I can appreciate what it took to build this country. I think of what Americans have invented and have gone through when I listen to their music.

I've spent most of my life hating this country and being angry at it. I understand its politics and evil capitalist ways but after meeting people from so many different countries I begin to realize that this country is the shit. We got it all, right?

How do you feel about where you live, ultimately?
 
Jun 27, 2005
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Lately I have been able to look around my city and see the buildings, the roads, the people. I can watch television and and see a few things I like. I read books by American authors and feel a kind of relation. I can appreciate what it took to build this country. I think of what Americans have invented and have gone through when I listen to their music.

I've spent most of my life hating this country and being angry at it. I understand its politics and evil capitalist ways but after meeting people from so many different countries I begin to realize that this country is the shit. We got it all, right?

How do you feel about where you live, ultimately?
you appreciate slavery, rape, theft and genocide?
 
Apr 8, 2005
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you appreciate slavery, rape, theft and genocide?
shutup with the slavery bullshit, every big nation has had some kind of slavery in their past, same with rape, not sure about genocide, but if we factor out all three of those there is no country to love, its like a vegetarian picking between beef and chicken, they dont eat meat, but they still have a preference, i personally prefer america, being that it has the highest level of oppertunity
 
May 3, 2008
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nope, I'm gonna start my own right in between the borders of two already existing ones, like Canada and USA, and I'm gonna call my nation USAC "the country where its ok if u smoke a sac."
 
Apr 8, 2005
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the "closet racist" has a point. most modern societies were built on slavery, rape, theft and genocide
most societies even way back when, spaniards raped the azteks and killed all the men, rome had seriously 1/3 of their own people enslaved, etc....
 
Jun 27, 2005
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shutup with the slavery bullshit, every big nation has had some kind of slavery in their past, same with rape, not sure about genocide, but if we factor out all three of those there is no country to love, its like a vegetarian picking between beef and chicken, they dont eat meat, but they still have a preference, i personally prefer america, being that it has the highest level of oppertunity

Oh shit you got me there. You have completely changed my thinking. How could I ever get the crazy idea that maybe slavery is wrong? Thank God for the white man enslaving the black man, raping the black and Indian women, and systematically destroying cultures and entire peoples. Where has this white nationalist been all my life? If only some other racist could have come and put this shit in perspective for me a long time ago...
 

Stealth

Join date: May '98
May 8, 2002
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Oh shit you got me there. You have completely changed my thinking. How could I ever get the crazy idea that maybe slavery is wrong? Thank God for the white man enslaving the black man, raping the black and Indian women, and systematically destroying cultures and entire peoples. Where has this white nationalist been all my life? If only some other racist could have come and put this shit in perspective for me a long time ago...
Oh yeah...slavery is totally a white/black thing....:cheeky:


SLAVERY is bad.

Slavery is NOT a white/black thing. Romans enslaved Romans, Greeks enslaved Greeks, Africans enslaved Africans, Africans enslaved Siclians, Americans enslaved Africans. Slavery still exists in the MIDDLE EAST, SOUTH ASIA, and AFRICA. Not Europe and America. Slavery started in Mesopotamia. Most slavery across the world wasn't a racial thing, but a class thing. Most of the poor were slaves to the rich.

Slavery is bad. But the minute you turn it into a black/white thing...you just sound like a whiny crying little moron who didn't do his homework and just wants an excuse to bitch about the fact that his life isn't what he wants it to be.
 
May 13, 2002
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#12
I like somethings, dislike others. But there is also a difference from "hating" the powers that be that run this country vs hating this country, i.e "I hate the government but love this country."

Also I voted no for the record, I don't see how someone could love anything other than a person or maybe their pet.
 
Jun 27, 2005
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Oh yeah...slavery is totally a white/black thing....:cheeky:


SLAVERY is bad.

Slavery is NOT a white/black thing. Romans enslaved Romans, Greeks enslaved Greeks, Africans enslaved Africans, Africans enslaved Siclians, Americans enslaved Africans. Slavery still exists in the MIDDLE EAST, SOUTH ASIA, and AFRICA. Not Europe and America. Slavery started in Mesopotamia. Most slavery across the world wasn't a racial thing, but a class thing. Most of the poor were slaves to the rich.

Slavery is bad. But the minute you turn it into a black/white thing...you just sound like a whiny crying little moron who didn't do his homework and just wants an excuse to bitch about the fact that his life isn't what he wants it to be.

First of all, fuckhead, I didnt make it a black/white thing. You little broads need to quit gettin so defensive over this shit. Somebody said they respect what America was built on. i pointed out a few of the things it was built on and asked if thats what he was proud of. This thread is about "your" country. In my case "your country" means America, not Rome, not the middle East, not Sicily or any other fuckin place. You following me? Now, slavery in America by and large IS a black/white thing. Me knowing that does not mean I'm whining. I can't help the fact that some of you dont like what you see when you look in the fuckin mirror. It is all of you white kids gettin defensive that look like the whiny little bitches.
 
Dec 18, 2002
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you appreciate slavery, rape, theft and genocide?
Not at all. And I know this country was built by slaves, stolen from the natives. I was merely posing a question to see how people identify themselves with the underlying or supposed morals of the country. I chose the word "love" for a reason. Of course I don't expect anyone to actually "love" this country but if you feel you identify with your surroundings I think you're more likely to say yes to that question.
 
Mar 4, 2007
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well, i somewhat understand what you mean by this question and poll, and you generalized it a lil so many people took it to their own meaning.

I love the fact that i can go eat thai food, and then go next door to the panaderia, and chop it up with the lady sellin me cafe and some pan dulce, then go across the street and chop it up with the muslim folks at the international bazaar and learn some arabic and eat some baklava...if thats what you mean, then yes, i think it is an absolutely amazing place to be. But i understand that it is not like this everywhere in u.s. because i grew up in an area of california that only had taqueria's, churches and a wal-mart. Luckily i got to move to the bay area, but then again this is only possible because of the economic opportunity that many people travel here for, which is only made from the capitalistic obsessed people and mindset, that in turn "helped build this country".

So i love meeting new people with varying cultures and languages, but like 2-0-sixx said i dislike our government VERY much.
 
Jun 27, 2005
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Not at all. And I know this country was built by slaves, stolen from the natives. I was merely posing a question to see how people identify themselves with the underlying or supposed morals of the country. I chose the word "love" for a reason. Of course I don't expect anyone to actually "love" this country but if you feel you identify with your surroundings I think you're more likely to say yes to that question.

I will go as far as to say that I like America (the place) and I probably wouldn't want to live anywhere else (maybe), but "love" does seem like a strange term to associate with a country.
 

YOUNGNUTT

I'm so O.C.
Jul 9, 2002
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#19
most societies even way back when, spaniards raped the azteks and killed all the men, rome had seriously 1/3 of their own people enslaved, etc....
ALL THE MEN???
THAT'S A BOLD STATEMENT!!!

AND TO THE QUESTION...... YES I LOVE MY COUNTRY!!!
I'VE ALWAYS LIVED IN A GHETTO/HOOD
(GHETTO MEANING THUGISH/GANGSTERISH NOT POOR)
AND BY THAT UPBRINGING, I FEEL CONNECTED TO MY SURROUNDINGS,
EVERYTHING FROM THE HALF ASS GRASS, AND JUNKIES TO THE
CRACCS IN THE PAVEMENT AND THE G'Z!!!
I FEEL SO COMFORTABLE AND LOVE IT!!!

MOST MY HOMIES TRIP OUT ON ME CUZ I'D RATHER BE POSTED
ON THE BLOCC WITH THE GANGSTERS AND GOULS THEN CHILL'N' IN SOME BANG'N' HOUSE GET'N' LOADED!!!