So if there was another country that shared all or the majority of the positive aspects and culture of the UK, would you feel patriotic about it as well?
To an extent I already do.....I feel a bond and sense of patriotism to the US...although, that has been, for me at least, tested by the last decade or so of US domestic and foreign policy, whereby I still feel patriotism toward the ideals of the nation (and to some extent this is true of UK too) but feel that those in power do not adhere to those ideals...so it would be their patriotism I question, rather than my own.
Patriotism doesn't mean you agree with everything an administration does in that Countries name....your loyality is to the values and ideals that nation represents, not alway the way men can corrupt them....a true patriot would defend his nation from those who would seek to corrupt those ideals as much as those who oppose them...
For example, I do not defend Dirtydogs hatred against another nationality simply because he is British....I oppose his hatred because it is contrary to what this country stands for.
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