Patriotism is one of the most important things that you can teach to your kid. The latter would put aside the country's well-being in a mundane, non-moral sense, and would focus instead on its distinctively moral well-being, its moral identity and integrity. As an instrument of survival, patriotic leanings have, at various times, upheld our republic, beginning with the Revolutionary War and including World War II, when democracy was under assault.
America has been fortunate to escape the continental European pattern of patriotic sentiment, in which local and particular loyalties are viewed as an impediment to devotion to the nation and must therefore be subdued at nearly any cost. Helping people in their community live with what this country has asked them to do makes a pretty good one.
It is immoral because it enjoins us to promote our country's interests at the expense of all other countries and by any means, including war, and is thus at odds with the most basic rule of morality, which tells us not to do to others what we would not want them to do to us (Tolstoy 1987, 97).
Also it should be noted it was an American black soldier from the 369th that was the first to be awarded the French War Cross, the Croix de Guerre. Many believe that the surge in patriotism enabled a number of major changes in national policy. One of the things that I like in programs to teach patriotism is to always start the program with the scouts posting the Colors of the United States of America.
However, the bunting is often done by keeping in preference with the color of the national flag or sometimes depending on the occasion. This rediscovery began in the 1980s with communitarianism and then developed into a renewed academic interest in nationalism, multiculturalism, citizenship, and the like.
That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator.
America has been fortunate to escape the continental European pattern of patriotic sentiment, in which local and particular loyalties are viewed as an impediment to devotion to the nation and must therefore be subdued at nearly any cost. Helping people in their community live with what this country has asked them to do makes a pretty good one.
It is immoral because it enjoins us to promote our country's interests at the expense of all other countries and by any means, including war, and is thus at odds with the most basic rule of morality, which tells us not to do to others what we would not want them to do to us (Tolstoy 1987, 97).
Also it should be noted it was an American black soldier from the 369th that was the first to be awarded the French War Cross, the Croix de Guerre. Many believe that the surge in patriotism enabled a number of major changes in national policy. One of the things that I like in programs to teach patriotism is to always start the program with the scouts posting the Colors of the United States of America.
However, the bunting is often done by keeping in preference with the color of the national flag or sometimes depending on the occasion. This rediscovery began in the 1980s with communitarianism and then developed into a renewed academic interest in nationalism, multiculturalism, citizenship, and the like.
That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator.
