Does anyone realize how sad and pathetic my (our?) generation is?
No one wants to be patriotic anymore. It's uncool, cause we are all supposed to hate Bush (as totally original and liberal teenagers, of course), and who doesn't want to be an ex-pat and live in Europe and be totally European?
No.
Since when did we start bitching about our own homeland? When did we start whining about our benefits? When did we become so ungrateful to our respectable forefathers?
Yeah, yeah, I bet you've heard it in history, but do you realize how lucky we are to have freedom? Sure, I complain about our country's lack of culture and suspicion and I even speculate on the reasons of crime rates, but we are free to aim for whatever job we want, to date whoever we want, to like who/what we want, to listen to what we want.
I am so sick and tired of this "America sucks!"
No, it doesn't, and I think that is such a shameful thing to say.
Like at the flag raising--No one paid attention. It was all, "oh hey guys, we don't have to be in class let's totally ignore the flag and the band and the singing."
It's sad to lose patriotism--to lose support and love for the very land that you were born and raised in.
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I agree. I never really thought about until my government teacher made us read this article about girls in Afghanistan. The new government there had banned and closed all the girls' schools until 2001. People werent even allowed to listen to music or watch videos INSIDE their own homes. We really are lucky and a lot of people don't appreciate it.
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