Do You Love Your Country?

My friend who is Indian is 24 and still lives with his parents. In the Indian culture, they think that it is very odd that the family would split up. They don't care about the remarks made about how they're 'mama's boys' or not 'independent'. That's just how they live and living in any other way is seen as some kind of insult to the family unit.

 

I love the actual land which is "Owned" by America. But I hate the government and the way they run it. Our ammendments are always being violated. I also hate a lot of the people in it. We are are a really ignorant and dumbed down country.

 

I refuse to answer this without a anonymous option:beatdeadhorse5:..

 

I don't love it because I was born here; if I did then I wouldn't love India.

It's more than that. I don't know how to explain it so I say Opels post got it pretty damn well.

Okay, that's fine. I just thought because you were complaining about where you were living. :cheers2:

My uncle still lives with his parents. He's around 30 now. No one else does, it's just he's the youngest.

I didn't think it was weird you were still there Tisha, I thought it was weird you'd complain at your mother like that when she doesn't want to move and you could go anyway. Especially the whole 'I'm stuck here' thing.

 

I hate the place that I live in. But I would be worse off if I was away from my family. Living in WI and MA I was on my own. I loved those places, but without my family and friends, I was constantly stressed by it.
I don't mean to make it sound like I'm harrassing my mom about moving. It's jokes that we always make. Like my cousin and I said we were going to pimp our moms out to international traveling guys. I do want to leave this area, but as long as my family is here, I'm here.

That's how it was in Mexico. It was not seen as strange at all that a single woman would still be living with her parents. We've become a very lonely people in America. At least that's the way I see it. It's important to me that my children will be raised around their grandparents. Maybe it's just because I wasn't and I missed out.
This is probably why I don't view the place that I live to be as important as the people that are around me.

 

Yeah, Australia is a great country, charming culture, friendly, down to earth people.

 

yes i do. i feel bonded with it.

 

My country's history and my background have definitely shaped me. I think BSR is probably the only one here that can understand it.

Anyways, when I say 'my country' I think both Bosnia and Croatia. I feel welcome and at home in both countries, yet not completely. Its a bit difficult to grow up torn between two very different environments, mentalities and cultures. For example, I have friends here and there, and they are SO different that they almost require a different 'me'. And what can you do, you always have to adapt.
There are huuuuge differences between Croatians and Bosnian Croats. Most Croatians still think of us as Bosnian refugees and think we don't really belong in Croatia. On the other hand, if you're a Bosnian Croat actually living in Bosnia, you won't feel completely welcome because its mostly a Muslim country. You basically have no rights. Sure there are Croatian politicians and represenatatives in the parliament, but its mostly figurative, to deceive Europe and UN and whatnot. Its rather depressing in a way, because I'd really like to go back to Bosnia one day, but its only gonna get worse.
Still, I don't think I'd want to go to USA or Germany or whatever country, and I cannot imagine having to talk in a language that is not yours every single day So I assume I'll just stay in Croatia

Also, it isn't just a piece of land. I'd feel very bad to think like that, considering my country's (recent) history, witnessing a war ( even though I was just a kid ) and seeing what that war did. I think it'd be a bit disrespectful to all those who were killed fighting for that exact piece of land ( as ideallistic as that sounds ).

 

No im moving to canada.

 

I can understand this bit. :cheers2:

 

Yes I love my country; but as an african american I’m torn between the idyllic lifestyle I’ve created here in america where I was born, and the mental image I have of my true home
which lies within the shadows of kilimanjaro


Hotwater

 

Well being "mixed" is part of the reason I've got contempt for Britain.
My father tended to have friends from the other immigrant families growing up. But chose to marry someone who was British and of a "British" religion,unlike his own.The idea partly being that its easier to integrate that way.

And I know full well that my job applications were binned because my name isn't "British" - even tho the Slavic ending was cut off.

I'm British but loyalty works both ways.So I couldn't really give a fuck about its fake values and bizarre ethos.

 

I've got multiple citizenships and i've moved around too much in life. I have some feelings for these countries but its all a bit mixed up.

 

I knew you would, Jai ho

 

i agree 100% with this. even though the wars that threatened our country were many moons ago, i still feel very proud of the people that fought for it and protected it, coz it's a beautiful place and i'm happy to be free to live here.

i liked your post piaf.

 

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August '86, just the other side of the 'Falls from Buffalo.

 

No. I do not love my country or government. They have done some terrible things that cannot be forgiven. Anyway, I believe the world should have no borders..people should be able to go anywhere we want without all of these lines seperating us.

 

I am not happy with my government and the way they are bought and paid for by corporations, I am glad I was born in the US though after a life time career of traveling abroad. I saw far worse overseas and on the upside I saw far better.....

 

of course i do!