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08-21-2011, 05:58 PM

i am sometimes annoyed how my country's old folk tend to celebrate how we survived wwI german occupation and wwII where germans and russians occupied us. i am against bringing up bad blood between countries (even thou almost 1/2 population died/fled). other than that over people are quite aware of our faults and if they brag about something then it usually has some merit to it.
for example. when we brag to tourists about things like our green land (no.1 in europe if not mistaken) or 13th century buildings, then it is fine by me. we don't wave our flags for no reason, nor we sing anthem for no reason.


i find myself actually frustrated with american patriotism sometimes, seeing how half of people don't know what they are talking about - specially when it comes to america being no.1 or the freedom they have. let's just say americans have the largest population of people who are blind to governments doings and love to yell to people who critique it "well, then you don't love america!"
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