Word: patriotism
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...Patriot Gains Many Europeans envy Americans' strong sense of patriotism [July 7]. This is most evident in the widespread display of the U.S. flag outside homes, businesses, factories and public institutions. Another difference is that in the U.S., immigrants assimilate patriotism very quickly. A French-born immigrant, for instance, soon identifies as American first and French second. By contrast, European Union attempts to impose a European identity have largely failed. Most citizens of the E.U.'s 27 member states jealously retain their national identity because they have never connected with the Brussels-based superstructure. The U.S. national motto...
...sons of immigrants and we love this country. We wrote The True Patriot because we believe that over recent decades, the idea of patriotism has been hijacked by the right and abandoned by the left...
What's promising about this election is that we have two presidential candidates whose biographies are parables of patriotism and who will be debating differing ideas of patriotism. But in the end, that is not enough. What's necessary, this season and well beyond, is for all of us to have these debates and for each of us to figure out for ourselves what choices - large and small, today and tomorrow - we can make to earn the title "true patriot...
Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer are authors of The True Patriot. www.truepat.org
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