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Patriot Games #1 (permalink) Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:08 pm   Patriot Games
 

In your country, what does it take these days to deserve the label "patriot" and what of what does "anti-patriotism" consist?
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Patriot Games #2 (permalink) Tue Apr 22, 2008 19:19 pm   Patriot Games
 

That depends on whom you ask here in the States:

A hippie might say that a patriot is someone who decides to boycott showers, Wal-Mart, deodorant, combs/brushes, scissors, the laundering of clothes, the principles of capitalism/free enterprise, and personal responsibility.

Everyday Joe would likely tell you that a patriot is someone who backs the interests of the United States, who supports our troops, etc.
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Patriot Games #3 (permalink) Tue Apr 22, 2008 22:30 pm   Patriot Games
 

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A hippie might say that a patriot is someone who decides to boycott showers, Wal-Mart, deodorant, combs/brushes, scissors, the laundering of clothes, the principles of capitalism/free enterprise, and personal responsibility.

Do you still have hippies?
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Patriot Games #4 (permalink) Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:54 am   Patriot Games
 

1. What do you see as the difference between nationalism and patriotism?

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2. Some critics have maintained that (unlike modern nationalism, which is a creation of the 19th-century nation state) authentic patriotism (as the Latin 'pater' would suggest) must be based in some form of genophilia and the sharing of ancestors.


Would any of you agree with those critics?
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Patriot Games #5 (permalink) Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:32 am   Patriot Games
 

Nowadays, while the big globalisation, noone can be a ´nationalist´ or ´patriot´ unless we broaden these terms to ´earthonalism´, and some centuries from now ´universalism´ perhaps?

However, people are working on this issue.

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Patriot Games #6 (permalink) Wed Apr 23, 2008 13:58 pm   Patriot Games
 

How would you define an "earthonalist", FoAH?
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Patriot Games #7 (permalink) Fri Apr 25, 2008 20:32 pm   Patriot Games
 

"earthonalist" --- person who´s aware that the earth is the planet (only planet) we all are living on

How did you understand that term, Molly?
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Patriot Games #8 (permalink) Sat Apr 26, 2008 21:35 pm   Patriot Games
 

Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
How did you understand that term, Molly?


I didn't.
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