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Hello fellow citizens.
Being British.
I am proud to be British, i love Great britain and i love my country, England. England is steeped in history as you all know, i love the people, some of them are funny, kind, considerate, compassionate and caring. Others annoy me, there is a yob culture in some places and that scares me but that is mostly put aside by all the other good stuff we have going for us. I know a fair bit about British history, it fascinates me how our anscestors did what they did to get us to our current status within world politics, and although some of the things the british people did in the past must have appeared barbaric to the outside world, that is our history and i embrace it. Being british also means some of us tend to be very self centered and unaware of what is going on outside of the UK, but i am interested in other people in other countries and would like for you to share something with me.
Here is my question... What do you love/hate about your country? i love america and admit to not knowing a lot about your history or culture but i love the idea of america, what does it mean to you to be american?
This is not only for americans, or english, i would like anyone, from any country, to write a few words on what it feels like to be a citizen of your nation. and how proud (or indeed unproud) you are of country.
If this thread is boring to you then please feel free NOT to post, but i am just interested in getting to know a bit more about my friends from different parts of the world, thanks for taking the time to read this and enjoy your day. many thanks, Cole.
Being British.
I am proud to be British, i love Great britain and i love my country, England. England is steeped in history as you all know, i love the people, some of them are funny, kind, considerate, compassionate and caring. Others annoy me, there is a yob culture in some places and that scares me but that is mostly put aside by all the other good stuff we have going for us. I know a fair bit about British history, it fascinates me how our anscestors did what they did to get us to our current status within world politics, and although some of the things the british people did in the past must have appeared barbaric to the outside world, that is our history and i embrace it. Being british also means some of us tend to be very self centered and unaware of what is going on outside of the UK, but i am interested in other people in other countries and would like for you to share something with me.
Here is my question... What do you love/hate about your country? i love america and admit to not knowing a lot about your history or culture but i love the idea of america, what does it mean to you to be american?
This is not only for americans, or english, i would like anyone, from any country, to write a few words on what it feels like to be a citizen of your nation. and how proud (or indeed unproud) you are of country.
If this thread is boring to you then please feel free NOT to post, but i am just interested in getting to know a bit more about my friends from different parts of the world, thanks for taking the time to read this and enjoy your day. many thanks, Cole.
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i too share your view about your new president, i think (from his pre-election blurb) that he will make a 'good, honest' president and that hopefully he may bring some stability to the US economy, because lets face it, if the US economy picks up, then hopefully ours will follow suit.
I like the idea of your constitution, i won't pretend to know much about it, but what does it mean to you? and do American's still hold it in high regard? Where abouts in the US are you originally from Kristi?
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America has a lot of problems, but we are free to talk about them!! In other countries, we could get jailed for that! I feel really lucky to be here, most of the time :)
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I too love all 50 states and each one has something unique and beautiful to offer.
I love that the opportunities are endless and we are free to pursue our dreams and make our lives exactly what we want.
I love many other countries too and if I had to pick a place other tham America to live it would be New Zealand- I was there once - its beautiful and I love the accent.
We are in grave danger of losing (and in some cases have lost) the very things that set us apart from so many other nations: our right to protest, or right to freedom from taxation without representation, or right to freedom of religious expression, habeus corpus, free speech, freedom from conscription, and freedom from governance by military force, freedom of the press. . . There are provisions set forth in the structure of our government that are designed to protect us from relinquishing these freedoms, but individually they are often seen as unimportant. There has also been a concentrated effort to scare the dickens out of people with threats of terrorism and to convince them that they will be safer if they allow the government to spy on, imprison, censure and torture those "THEY" deem a threat. As near as I can tell, many of our citizens are not aware of how easily they could be perceived as "THEY."
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I am envious of England's men's shoes, suits and accessibility to Graham Norton.
That does not mean that there is anything wrong with England - except the weather.
I moved to Spain not because I had anything against my home country but because I suffer from a condition called SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and suffer acute depression in the English climate.
If only the sun would shine there more often I would go back tomorrow.
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