[Dora]

I wouldn't really say i have particular 'pride' for my country but i don't think England is a bad place. I am not so proud of things it's done in the past, such as involvement in the slave trade, colonisation, "being America's Bitch" (couldn't put it any better myself) etc etc but I think it's done good things too.

My grandma had a view on the Germans that i don't share; she thought that all German people should be ashamed of their country for its atrocities in the wars but this is only because she lived through both of them. I think that although Germany has a somewhat tainted history, they should be proud of how they recovered and re-built from them- after all, Hitler, the Kaiser and their followers did not make up the entire German population and many of them only followed out of fear; therefore, i think German people today have my respect and should not hide from their past but be proud of their country as it is now.