Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What's wrong with being patriotic, B.D.? Eventhough philosophically I consider it to be an outdated concept (the world should be our country by now, even if I must admit such a thing might turn out to be utopic), I still envy those that have patriotic feelings. Because it means being proud of your origins. Of what you and your forefathers stand for. Which is an unbelievable power. Patriotism is barely known by us Belgians (because we come from nowhere: a bufferstate between once big countries, with influences of all) and that is our big disadvantage. We're more flexible and speak more languages than most other nations thanks to our history, but are not patrioticthanks to it, too (unless on a few footbal games agaisnt other countries). That's why we are -against our potential- still small, in whatever meaning of the word. BTW being patriotic IMO doesn't have anything to do with approving what the government does IMO. A country stays, govenrments change. Shifting this topic to the forum, now. > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:06:00 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] my flag project is online/ Karen Schreiber > > Not going to go there, Sonny -;-) > > I should add that for years every 4th of July and Memorial Day I hung from > the front of the house in which I lived the 6 foot, 46 star American flag > my > maternal grandparents had been given as a wedding present. But I stopped > doing so when displaying the flag became shorthand for "I'm patriotic - > what's a matta wid you?" > > > On 9/4/05 1:59 PM, "SonC@aol.com" <SonC@aol.com> wrote: > >> >> >> In a message dated 9/4/2005 11:52:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time, >> bdcolen@comcast.net writes: >> >> More to the point - If we live in America, and are Americans, why do we >> have >> to fly flags or plaster flag stickers on our cars to tell people that >> we're >> Americans? The flag has, unfortunately, become a political symbol. >> >> -------------------------- >> >> >> Yeah, and isn't it ironic that the people who fly it most proudly are in >> the >> South? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> Sonny >> (who proudly flies the star spangled banner on a pole in front of my >> house) >> >> http://www.sonc.com >> Natchitoches, Louisiana >> Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane >> ?galit?, libert?, crawfish >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >