your country..do u love it?

Yes, i do. I believe that the reasons are rather obvious--i was born here, and i am therefore familiar with the language, the culture, and generally, the attitudes of well-adjusted people. I love my country a great deal. I am proud to be the citizen of a republic, and would not wish to live under any other form of government. Although the United States often has a bad image elsewhere in the world, living here one sees what people elsewhere don't see. There genuinely is freedom of speech, within the limits imposed by responsibility (one of our judges once said that freedom of speech does not protect the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater), so that as long as i don't threaten others, or instigate crime, i can say what i please. There is freedom of religion, if not always freedom from religion, which also means that one is free to have no religion at all, and to criticize religion.

Our politicians oftentimes do stupid things. Sometimes they do monumentally stupid things. This is not different elsewhere, however, and those who do not live here do not see how well things work at the local level. There is a lot of opportunity here, and having visited and lived in other countries, my experience is that the access to opportunities here is broader and easier to negotiate.

Finally, even if someone alleges that it is a failed experiment, my nation began as an experiment in self-government for which no example existed in the world at the time. A famous American once said that: ". . . the lives of men are brief, but the life of humanity is long; we see the ebb of the advancing wave and despair." I don't despair when i see that things are not good here, because my experience and my reading of history teaches me that Americans can, and eventually very likely will, make things right, make things better.

Re: your country..do u love it?

It was Gustav Heinemann, the president of Germany from 1969 to 1974, who put my answer best: "I don't love my country, I love my wife." (Except that I don't have a wife.) To me, love is for individuals, and I apply it to them generously, sometimes even too generously (believe it or not). But when love is directed at a collective, as in patriotism, it feels strange to me and makes me uncomfortable. I could never pledge allegiance to a flag. And I very much prefer my national anthem in Joseph Haydn's original string quartet version, without the text.

Oh yes, I adore my country! I couldn't think of anywhere I'd rather spend the rest of my life.
I love it here because the views are spectacular, the people are friendly, it's quiet, peaceful, and beautiful.

I call it my own private heaven :-D

-Yes
-lots
-its New Zealand!

Re: your country..do u love it?
Hi Thomas!
I think that love is somthing that u can give to many things, not only individuals. Well, let me tell u; you wake up one day and you hear that your country has a big trouble with another...you will fell happy?
I don't think so.
To love the coutry is to prefer it..to love people there.

Re: your country..do u love it?

This may be true if your "u" refers to the generic sense of "you". But if "u" means "you, Thomas", you are mistaken -- I personally can't love collectives, and never have. Granted, I might say "I love my family", because it's convenient shorthand for "I love each individual in my family". But I wouldn't say "I love my extended family", because my extended family contains individuals I don't love, even hate -- unlike the small family consisting of my parents, my sisters, and myself.


No I won't, because it usually implies trouble for individuals I love, and who live there. But I would feel just as unhappy if it was Spain or the USA that were in big trouble with some other country -- because several people I love live there. Still, Spain is not my country, and neither is the USA.

Yep, especially as im getting older and especially since the bombings.I love london for its history and all the places that have there own history, for exports/imports/harbours/pottery/steel etc

I love my country. It is not perfect, but it is perfect for me. It is part of me and who I am. Almost like my family - I love them, they are part of who I am, we are far from perfect, but we are perfect for each other.

Love my country

A lot

No need to answer -- just do!

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I love my country, the United States. But like a loving parent, I try to correct the errors of its ways so that it can mature to a nation of good citizens not only of the U.S., but of the world.

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