Originally posted by cpxxx
Cannot deny the USA is a good country, can't get enough of it myself. But why the constant need to assert it?
Bluedog, had a good point, IMHO.
A country inhabitated by individuals coming from largely different countries, missing a "people-like" connettive tissue, the type of force that, in the so-called old world, is given from the common longtime story and culture.
This "immigrant-based" country have the need to develope a different force to gather the people in to the social pact.
In the good, 'ol U.S.A., this force is basicly the sybolism associated to the state, the nation:
Flag, constitution, recent history, repulse and dissociacion from the original of each one.
And the common feeling is the patriotism, a strong patriotism.
This patriotism, like the one showed by nuke and others, not a sick way to feel proud of their country, is what, in the end, disturb so much many Euro types.
For a simple reason.
The patriotism, pushed to the extreme, is what the 2 main dictatorship of the just passed century have used to gather the people, win the resistence to jump in a new war just after the devastating first one, up to the theories about the superiority of a race over the others.
In a word, when many Euros see too much patriotism, they smell "nazi-fascism", and jump on the chair, the pain is still strong.
But, in my opinion, the USA seem enough resistent to not go down that road, the road of dictatorship.
Well, anyway, we will see in november.
