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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:45 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:46 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:47 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:48 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:51 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:57 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:59 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:02 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:06 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:06 pm
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Tenkai Matsumoto Rising Hourglass Protip: Getting people to rally behind a laundry list of values and praising them for it is what got us into this funk. No, being educated and willing to change your entire value system in response to the changing times if it will positively benefit your country is smart. I still don't see where being "American" breaks that. ._. I mean...if I live in America, and I'm a citizen...I'm American. If I'm looking at it too simply, I'm sorry, but I just don't buy into the whole "bad to be American" thing. Or the whole "laundry list of values" thing. Some people really just do believe in certain values, and it's their right to do so. Times do change, but doing things "if it will positively benefit your country" just feels like it assumes there's no other way to benefit it, or that any ideas the "other side" comes up with just doesn't fit. I dunno. x_x But you were right..I should probably stop now. It was my fault for leading this discussion here, and people do seem to take these things very seriously. It's best I just keep out of it before people start liking me even less. ._. Tenkai, the reason I don't see myself as an American is not to be a hippy or something. It's because I don't confine myself to a single nationality in terms of interests and the like. I am a man who wants to explore the world, so to me, I'm simply an Earthling who enjoys the many different cultures that exist.
I feel no love as an American, anyway, nor any pride, to be honest. Not because I grew up without the privilege of wealth (which, believe me, struggling makes you stronger), but merely because I wasn't in the era of revolution. I'm simply a guy born into this world who wants to see more of the world. And since I have no emotional connection to America, I am not American. By the books, I am, but to myself, I am not.
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:08 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:10 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:11 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:11 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:11 pm
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