Quote by mughiAre you proud of
the country you're living? A small article I read in today's newspaper had interesting statistical breakdown
of how the people surveyed was proud of their country. 73% of Americans were proud of their country. 50% of Canadians
surveyed was proud of their country. 48% of British was proud of their country. 34% of Germans were proud of country and
most surprising only 5% of Japanese surveyed was proud of their country.
I have strong disagreement with current president's foreign and domestic policy but I am proud to be American.
One problem with surveys like this is.. You never know who they've asked to collect their numbers.
I don't know, why it's only 5% japanese, but I guess they just didn't ask the "right"
people.
The 34% in Germany can be explained this way: If a german mentions to be proud of his country someone shouts
"Nazi" and he's in trouble, because being proud in this case inplies Nationalism, which is bad. And since
no one wants to be a nazi, nobody tells you they're proud (which really is a good thing) of the countries
achivements.
The +-50% like mentioned in Canada an UK would be a normal percentage for patriotism.
The 75% in the US... well if you don't tell your own people how you're fucking the world, they're proud
of everything they do get to know (well, at least the good parts). -> Not talking about Bush. But now they have the
internet, and access to foreign, non-US-government-controlled news... and maybe in 10-20 years only 72% of US citizens
will be proud of their country.
> BM... I have a dream, but it's to visionary
merged: 11-12-2005 ~ 12:44am
Quote by SaKuRa149Mmm..I
dunno....maybe yes n maybe not..
My country is not so famous u know...
Fame doesn't count here.
Remember YOU are part of your country. If you can be proud of yourself, you can be proud of your country as
well.
> BM ... being part of it