Now it’s official. We don’t have to try any more. All we need to do is proclaim what we all know in our hearts.
This is a reissue of an Onion story from 1999, even more appropriate in 2007.
The Onion: “Congress Passes ‘America Is #1’ Bill”
Now it’s official. We don’t have to try any more. All we need to do is proclaim what we all know in our hearts.
This is a reissue of an Onion story from 1999, even more appropriate in 2007.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
I don't get senseless, undeserved pride. Why do people show "pride" in a city or country they did not create, or a sports team on which they do not play? Why does self-esteem actually fluctuate with the success and failures of something you derive "pride" from, even if you have nothing to do with it? Social psychology of course has a name for the concept- Basking in Reflected Glory. You can read more about the phenomenon (particularly on the subject of team pride) here.
My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
G.K.Chesterton (from "The Defendant" 1901)