I’m German and I don’t think that it’s particularly healthy to be proud of the country you’re from. It’s basically the belief that your own traditions, language and land are better than that of others. Like I get calling a place home, but so many places in Germany are as foreign to me as places in other countries. Maybe more familiar, but familiarity isn’t the same as something being good.

Anyone who was proud of america before was just drinking the coolaid. There are things america did that were worth being proud of individually, but soo many more not to. It’s the same idea as idolizing a person. The vast majority of the time they are really a bad person overall. Instead focus on the event or achievement and not the person.

You’re getting a lot of the same comments in here, and I don’t feel like I need to add to the cacophony of voices decrying just how bad things have gotten (or, if you prefer, how bad they have always been and how they have only just now become more visible to us) so I thought I would chime in with one that still holds true today.

The United States has some of the best national parks in the world. If you are someone who enjoys nature and being in the great outdoors, whether that’s hiking, hunting, fishing, birdwatching, climbing, caving, exploring, etc. the experience you can get here really can’t be matched anywhere else in the world. We have the most diverse range of biomes anywhere on the planet - deserts, mountains, valleys, forests, badlands, swamps - you name it, we’ve got it and it’s probably contained in one of our many national parks scattered across the countryside - and the best part is that access is free for everybody.

Now, the big caveat, and one that kind of deflates this selling point quite a bit recently, is that a lot of the national park land and nature reserves are under threat right now by the Trump administration - there have been big moves by the executive to reclassify lots of federally protected land in order to expand oil drilling/fracking operations, as well as a push to force non-resident visitors to pay for entry, both of which are being fought tooth and nail by conservationists and environmental activists.

So, there’s something. We can debate on whether or not it’s a good thing to have national pride over things that we have little to no control over, but at the very least we can say we enjoy what we have now and take pride in the fact that our forebearers had the wisdom to use the law to protect the land and it’s precious resources and that we continue that effort into the modern era.

Being “proud of your country” is the root cause for all this shit.

Be proud of your family, your city, your friends, your self. even your company if they do good by you and others.

Never your country.

Over the past decade, you can be proud of how you’ve made inclusive principles a standard feature of your cultural products.

Today, you’re facing backlash from the idiots who are panicking, but in Europe many of us are still lagging behind, and the positive effects of your influence on inclusion are still being felt.

Totally normal feeling and it shows you have awareness of what is going on.

There are tons of good people in the US and even more that would be good if our society wasn’t so twisted.

Maybe not the government, but look to the people.

We are really, really good at making billionaires even richer while decreasing quality of life for the weak, lazy 99%. /s but sadly not really

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As an American, I will never have faith in or be proud of this country again. Simple as that. That ship has sailed.

Act like russian. You will be surprised that most of them don’t support this war and their gov.

America always was shit. You only felt proud out of, at best, ignorance.

This is a country that was built on slavery, racism, and genocide. None of that changed, it only changed forms.

Hockey, I guess?

what were you proud of?

Doing turds dirty framing it like that.