National Pride

[Mich the Tester]

Can anyone tell me why I should be ‘proud to be British (or indeed Dutch, seeing as I live in NL)?

Can’t I just be an individual, outwardly modest but inwardly proud of my achievements, happy to do my fair share and abide by the law as long as the law is moral and just, but without attaching importance to any particular flag, anthem and state?

[Churchill]

Can anyone tell me why I should be ‘proud to be British (or indeed Dutch, seeing as I live in NL)?

Can’t I just be an individual, outwardly modest but inwardly proud of my achievements, happy to do my fair share and abide by the law as long as the law is moral and just, but without attaching importance to any particular flag, anthem and state?

Holland is bigger than Belgium!

[EternalOptimist]

Can anyone tell me why I should be ‘proud to be British (or indeed Dutch, seeing as I live in NL)?

Can’t I just be an individual, outwardly modest but inwardly proud of my achievements, happy to do my fair share and abide by the law as long as the law is moral and just, but without attaching importance to any particular flag, anthem and state?

Mich the tester - proud to be Argentinian

[Mich the Tester]

Mich the tester - proud to be Argentinian

Erm, I think you’re in danger of proposing an ‘excluded middle’ fallacy there.

[EternalOptimist]

Erm, I think you’re in danger of proposing an ‘excluded middle’ fallacy there.

who are you calling a phallus ? Argie

[ratewhore]

Can anyone tell me why I should be ‘proud to be British (or indeed Dutch, seeing as I live in NL)?

Nope. Some things you have to work out for yourself...

[Mich the Tester]

Nope. Some things you have to work out for yourself...

No, I’m looking for a rationale for ‘National Pride’. I don’t just do things because of blind emotion or some non-rationalized sense of loyalty.

[EternalOptimist]

No, I’m looking for a rationale for ‘National Pride’. I don’t just do things because of blind emotion or some non-rationalized sense of loyalty.

look, when I called you an argie, the hairs on the back of your neck stood on end, you stood up at your desk and started to sing 'Land of Hope and Glory'

admit it

[Mich the Tester]

look, when I called you an argie, the hairs on the back of your neck stood on end, you stood up at your desk and started to sing 'Land of Hope and Glory'

admit it

Nope, I actually thought of this lot

[ratewhore]

No, I’m looking for a rationale for ‘National Pride’. I don’t just do things because of blind emotion or some non-rationalized sense of loyalty.

Oh I see. In that case, I'm looking for a rationale for whether I should have pasta or noodles for lunch.

Anyone?