Americans have grown less proud of their country’s history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
Americans’ pride in the U.S. on several key attributes has dropped since 2017 — including the nation’s military and its political influence around the globe — according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. This poll was conducted in April, as the United States and Iran fought over the Strait of Hormuz in a prolonged war that started with the U.S. and Israel launching strikes on Iran.
New Gallup polling also finds that only 53% of U.S. adults are “extremely” or “very” proud to be an American, the lowest reading in the trend dating back to 2001.
Because being a citizen of that country/city means you are inherently responsible for and add to the culture of said country/city. There’s no song, novel, or individual that is created without outside influence and in the vast majority of cases that influence comes from a village/city/country. You literally wouldn’t exist as the person you know if you were born somewhere else.
There’s nothing wrong with being proud of where you come from. It only becomes problematic when it becomes nationalism
This is true but seems irrelevant to the point. You wouldn’t exist without the sun, but no one’s out being proud of the sun.
A lot of the flag waving types I’m thinking of, the maga hats et al, are making the country worse. If only they were responsible (as in, accountable).
Either my point flew over your head like a 737 or you’re just bad at arguing…
If you were born one town, city, or state away from where you were born you’d essentially be a completely different person. Its perfectly reasonable for someone to be proud of where they come from because the overall experience there shaped them as a person in what they consider a net positive.
It’s not “perfectly reasonable” to be proud of that. It’s common, but the whole dispute here is people saying that it is unreasonable.
Many people consider a personal accomplishment of some sort a prerequisite for feeling proud. Being born somewhere is not that. You can see other people in this thread rejecting being proud of a sports team they don’t play for.
(There’s also pride like LGBT pride, but that’s more of an explicit rejection of being told to be ashamed. And surviving while queer is something of an accomplishment.)
Well if that’s the case someone from a formerly poor or war torn nation can have pride being from there because their ppl survived. You’re just moving the goal post
I could see that being compelling. Proud that you survived oppression or whatever. But it doesn’t really apply to the us, which is what this topic is focused on.