I don't feel the need to justify my existence to the world
Oh, we love our whipping dogs, don't we, world?
No one likes to be looked down on but last time I checked all the people from other countries pointing fingers at us horrid and evil Americans don't live in perfect worlds themselves so I don't have any reason to put stock in their opinions. But more than those people, I'm sick of Americans who run around apologizing for their existence. "I didn't vote for him!" they cry. "It's the capitalist pig Republicans!" they insist. "Those intolerant conservatives got us in this mess!" they assert. Not to mention the celebrities who basically live as ex-patriots because they disagree with the politics in this country but come back when it suits them to make money or when the climate is more to their liking.
I'm not a "blind" patriot who thinks America is great just because I live here and I say so but I still love this country and the values and beliefs it was founded on. What's got this country in trouble, so to speak, is the straying from those ideals and I know everyone wants to blame it all on one man or political party but that's just naive and hypocritical. Not to mention, self-serving and rather dishonest. Economics and societal changes do not happen overnight or even over one election term. They are things that are constantly shifting and evolving over generations. While having Obama as the president is a wonderful sign that we might be improving in one area (i.e. all this racial bigotry nonsense) he's not a cure all and people that think he's some kind of magic band-aid are going to have to realize that.
I don't need a pat on the back from France or Canada or Australia or England or Mexico or Japan or anywhere else. We are just one country. One country that the world is either lambasting us for interference with other countries or for not helping out enough. They want us to clean up all the messes and police the world because we're oh, so powerful, yet they then complain about our so-called arrogance.
Even if I'd had a choice as to what nationality I am I will not apologize for being an American. I will not apologize for believing what I believe and defending my right to believe it. I'm proud of this country, young as it is, for allowing me to have that privilege. It's like my relationship with my sisters, of whom I have five. We will fight and argue and disagree with each other but woe to any outsider who dares to pick one of us apart. So whatever color your stripe is, left or right, we're all responsible for the state things are in and we should present a united front to the world, not this splintered bickering and whining and refusal of responsibility.
No one likes to be looked down on but last time I checked all the people from other countries pointing fingers at us horrid and evil Americans don't live in perfect worlds themselves so I don't have any reason to put stock in their opinions. But more than those people, I'm sick of Americans who run around apologizing for their existence. "I didn't vote for him!" they cry. "It's the capitalist pig Republicans!" they insist. "Those intolerant conservatives got us in this mess!" they assert. Not to mention the celebrities who basically live as ex-patriots because they disagree with the politics in this country but come back when it suits them to make money or when the climate is more to their liking.
I'm not a "blind" patriot who thinks America is great just because I live here and I say so but I still love this country and the values and beliefs it was founded on. What's got this country in trouble, so to speak, is the straying from those ideals and I know everyone wants to blame it all on one man or political party but that's just naive and hypocritical. Not to mention, self-serving and rather dishonest. Economics and societal changes do not happen overnight or even over one election term. They are things that are constantly shifting and evolving over generations. While having Obama as the president is a wonderful sign that we might be improving in one area (i.e. all this racial bigotry nonsense) he's not a cure all and people that think he's some kind of magic band-aid are going to have to realize that.
I don't need a pat on the back from France or Canada or Australia or England or Mexico or Japan or anywhere else. We are just one country. One country that the world is either lambasting us for interference with other countries or for not helping out enough. They want us to clean up all the messes and police the world because we're oh, so powerful, yet they then complain about our so-called arrogance.
Even if I'd had a choice as to what nationality I am I will not apologize for being an American. I will not apologize for believing what I believe and defending my right to believe it. I'm proud of this country, young as it is, for allowing me to have that privilege. It's like my relationship with my sisters, of whom I have five. We will fight and argue and disagree with each other but woe to any outsider who dares to pick one of us apart. So whatever color your stripe is, left or right, we're all responsible for the state things are in and we should present a united front to the world, not this splintered bickering and whining and refusal of responsibility.