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StellaSlight · 03-23-2004, 05:32 PM

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Originally posted by n e r b l e:
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and it's not a matter of just dissenting. if you want to dislike, or be ashamed of america or whatever, so be it. and not to beat a dead horse, but why not move to a country you're not ashamed of? not to sound like we're trying to run you off the continent but wouldn't you be happier in a country with views that matched your own? i don't know, maybe you like a lot of what america offers but what's going on now upsets you. but constant negativity will make people think you hate the place.</STRONG>

I think everyone has been ashamed of his/her country at least once. Politics change and turn over, that's the way things work. I was ashamed of my country when the extreme-right wing came second in the last presidential elections, due to the lack of participation from voters. I was ashamed because I felt that it didn't represent my own values anymore, just like how those protesters probably feel right now. It was my right to protest in a 'march' and show how ashamed of my country I was. So were like 87% of the population. What were we supposed to do, flee because we didn't feel the politics then matched our own? Nope.
Your 'protesting warriors' have all the right to feel ashamed of their country as it is now, but it doesn't mean they're ashamed to be Americans. They're ashamed of current politics, not a system of values, culture, nor inheritage.

And I feel that it's a difference that is tremendously important. I've seen too many people called 'anti-Americans' or 'bad compatriots' in the past year while all they did was to disagree with a certain politics.