Proud Of Your Home Country?


Are you proud of your home country?  

477 members have voted

  1. 1. Are you proud of your home country?

    • Yes, very patriotic towards it
      267
    • No, its simply a place of residence to me
      101
    • I'm ashamed of it
      67
    • Other
      42
  2. 2. What country is your "home country?"

    • United States
      140
    • Canada
      56
    • Australia
      32
    • United Kingdom
      97
    • Another American Country Not Listed
      16
    • Another European Country Not Listed
      55
    • China
      7
    • Other
      74


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wait, home country as in the motherland or resident country.

rofl i think i mis voted.

accidentally thought it was motherland :blush: (south Korea)

U.S.

is wher i reside.

im proud if it, sure. Its a great country in my opinion.

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I'm from Holland, which is a pretty OK place, just way over-organized, too many little rules and laws. But right now I live in Manila, Philippines, but I've lived in London, England; Minsk, Belarus; and Berlin, Germany. The one place I would never ever want to live is the USA. The one place I would most certainly move back to is London if I had the chance.

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"Love it or leave it"?

Sure - immigration laws make that REAL easy....

The US needs an economic crisis so it can understand the rest of the world. It needs to get rid of the theocrats and start governing from a non-religious base.

Pass gay marriage, open the borders, end the war, nationalize health care, end domestic spying, etc. Do these things and the country might be considered "free".

I'm very ashamed of the US, and am leaving ASAP.

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As is clearly depicted and shown by the poll up to this point, all canadians are ashamed of their country, with the remaining 3 being Americans who wished they could be Canadians. All of the UK voters consider it to be just a place of residence and all Americans are patriotic minus the 3 wannabe Cannucks. The rest of the world is conflicted and have 'other' closet like feelings. ;)

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I'll put it this way:

I'm proud of the country I live in, for the things it was founded now, not the things it is doing now. I'm not going anywhere though, because I love the freedoms I have, and if anyone says, "Sure, the 'freedoms' you have." you can go f*** yourself, because I do have those freedoms.

I agree with Night Hawk that our country and our president are two completely different things. Being Patriotic doesn't mean following the leader blindly. I don't follow Bush, because I don't agree with many things he says/does.

I completely agree. Our country stands for freedom and there are good and decent folks that live here. Although you can not characterize an entire country, the US is NOT full of "shoot-em up" cowboys, racists, pampered overweight people, bigots, or any of the like. As with all countries, we have our share of all of these. But by and large, we are a welcoming, friendly, and compassionate nation.

That being said, there is also a very large segment of the population that currently detests our government, our current President, and his right-wing party. He speaks and acts only for himself and his own ideals and not our nation as a whole.

Barney

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I'm proud of Scotland - we're cool! We beat England at the weekend for the Rugby! yaaay...shame about the women curlers at the Winter Olympics as they won gold for us in the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics...they were Scottish...we do quite well for a wee corner of the globe by the way.

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If by home country you mean where I live...that would be the US...and i'm not too proud of that.

However, if you mean where I was born and lived for nearly half my life...that would be Italy, a place that I am proud of.

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"Love it or leave it"?

Sure - immigration laws make that REAL easy....

The US needs an economic crisis so it can understand the rest of the world. It needs to get rid of the theocrats and start governing from a non-religious base.

Pass gay marriage, open the borders, end the war, nationalize health care, end domestic spying, etc. Do these things and the country might be considered "free".

I'm very ashamed of the US, and am leaving ASAP.

How about the depression of the 1930's??? Not many other countries have open borders. It's a bitch to immigrate to Canada. Believe, I checked into it. Why should we make it easy for people to come here when other countries make it next to impossible?

I love my country, not the president.

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I'm from Canada and I'm proud of this place. It's a great and peaceful country, great to study for a family that doesn't have a large income and in Montreal, we're people from all over the world so its great to see faces from everywhere on the globe.

My only issue with Canada is why do they have to put a Maple Leaf on everything Canadian :rolleyes:

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It's a bitch to immigrate to Canada. Believe, I checked into it. Why should we make it easy for people to come here when other countries make it next to impossible?

Actually it's much easier to get into Canada than the U.S since 9/11 and less strict on certain things. They opened my friend's condom packages before hoping on the plane to go to Chicago because their luggage scanner thingy couldn't see through the aluminium foilage.

I'd say at the beginning of when Clinton was president (and the past probably was like this also), for a Canadian or American to cross the border of the neighboring country was almost as simple as hoping on a bus. Show a few id's like your drivers license, medicare card, say where you're going and for how long and that's it, no matter what you looked like whether you're arab or black or hispanic or whatever. Now, it's practically like a full cavity search even for caucasians to enter the U.S.

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Actually it's much easier to get into Canada than the U.S since 9/11 and less strict on certain things. They opened my friend's condom packages before hoping on the plane to go to Chicago because their luggage scanner thingy couldn't see through the aluminium foilage.

I'd say at the beginning of when Clinton was president (and the past probably was like this also), for a Canadian or American to cross the border of the neighboring country was almost as simple as hoping on a bus. Show a few id's like your drivers license, medicare card, say where you're going and for how long and that's it, no matter what you looked like whether you're arab or black or hispanic or whatever. Now, it's practically like a full cavity search even for caucasians to enter the U.S.

Visiting the country is one thing; immigration is another. Ncoday is right, getting into Canada legally is incredibly difficult.

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I'm extremely proud to be English. Never will I become a european...no, I'm not being racist, it's just the UK means certain things to me, and becoming just another EU country would destroy our individuality.

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I'm extremely proud to be English. Never will I become a european...no, I'm not being racist, it's just the UK means certain things to me, and becoming just another EU country would destroy our individuality.

The UK is a part of Europe :rolleyes:

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The UK is a part of Europe :rolleyes:

He means the Eurupean Union, someone doesn't read for context. I will always be faithful to Rossiya, even if the Bolsheviks are running the country.

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I've never been a hugely patriotic person, it always seemed kinda like racism to me. It's not like you have control over where you are born just like you have no control over your skin color. I don't hate my country (USA), but I do hate the current government and capitalist society. So I'm going to chose "No, its simply a place of residence to me".

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Ashamed. Have been for the past 6 years while putzhead has been in office. And yes, that is my personal opinion.

ha

so bush is putzhead that makes bliar yentabollox.

ha

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