Patriotism - worth its weight?
Date Submitted: 05/02/2004 08:20:07
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 2 pages (656 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 2 pages (656 words)
It is almost contrived to say that history can educate the leaders and key thinkers of the present, yet the phrase “learn from the past” appears in nearly every history book’s introduction. With all the historians and well-read politicians in this society, hasn’t anyone been able to understand one vital thing: patriotism is lethal? Nationalism has proven itself a potentially dangerous force in the past. Even today, as politics unfold in their sinister …
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…between the good of the United States or the good of mankind. Patriotism has proven itself a negative force in the past. The negative effects of it are starting to repeat themselves here and now. Patriotism dehumanizes people who dissent and opens the floodgates for retrogression. Simply put, while it’s the latest craze to be patriotic and to don the red, white and blue, Americans should look first at their 3rd grade history books.
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