Country patriotism.

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Here, you can have an outlet of your patriotic feelings for your country, be it the government, the people or the very country landscape itself, traditions, etc.

Here, I play my patriotism for the landscape and glory of the norwegian way. (Not the government. They sux0rz.)

Norway

/me plays the national anthem of Norway, erects a pole with Norway’s flag and sings the national anthem.

[i]Ja, vi elsker dette landet,
Som det stiger frem,
Furet, værbitt, over vannet,
Med de tusen hjem.
Elsker, elsker det og tenker
På vår far og mor
Og den saganatt som senker
Drømme på vår jord,
Og den saganatt som senker
Senker drømme på vår jord,

Norske mann i hus og hytte,
Takk din store Gud!
Landet ville han beskytte
Skjønt det mørkt så ut.
Alt hva fedrene har kjempet,
Mødrene har grett,
Har den Herre stille lempet,
Så vi vant vår rett,
Har den Herre stille lempet,
Så vi vant, vi vant vår rett.

Ja, vi elsker dette landet,
Som det stiger frem,
Furet, værbitt over vannet,
Med de tusen hjem!
Og som fedres kamp har hevet
Det fra nød til seier
Også vi når det blir krevet,
For dets fred slår leir,
Også vi når det blir krevet,
For dets fred, dets fred slår leir.[/i]

And as a sympathy for Japan, along with a tribute to it’s great language.

/me hoists Japan’s flag, fires up the national anthem and sings to it.

…
Kimi gayo wa
Chiyo ni yachiyo ni
Sazareishi no
Iwao to narite
Koke no musumade

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*Petter stomps the rhytm and join singing

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And i absolutely hate Norway. I prefer any scandinavian countries over this piece of shit country :razz:

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Because…?

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  • Europe was ours…a few thousand years ago
  • The total $$$ value of the art in Tuscany is higher than that of the whole France (nothing against France)
  • We invented the eyeglasses, the thermometer, the radio, the parachute, the piano, the scissors, the telephone, the batteries and the GSM protocol
  • Italy has landscapes ranging from beaches to mountains

That’s all I can think of right now.

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I can’t say I have any feelings even remotely akin to patriotism.

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Well Canada looks nice…it’s cold…ummmm…we have good…beer…other than that our education system sucks and our Government is run by a crooked party :tongue:

But we did engineer the arms that we use on the space shuttle, and our economy is picking up, maybe soon our dollar value will be higher than the American Dollar :tongue:

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Well i say fuck patriotism in the ass with a high voltage cable. Patriotism only leads to war and a us and them rellation between contries.

I hate every nation but i love the world!

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Yeah, why?

I started to like Norway after reading about Amundsen and Nansen years ago, and stuff from Knut Hamsun and listening to Grieg, and some Norwegian folk-black metal bands. I even bought some Norwegian dictionaries to learn your language, but unfortunately i haven’t had much time yet to do so. I somehow started to like Norway more than Denmark, Sweden, or Finland if i need to name Scandinavian countries, and when i get rich i definately want to watch with my own eyes, has my perference right, or not :tongue:

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Then I recommend you move to Norway, especially to my place. :smile:

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I have thought about that, but if i ever do it, i’ll do it in far future maybe. I have some hopes about my country too, that is recovering from Soviet times (Estonia), so at first i try to have good ground here (good job and family), before trying to find it in somewhere else :content: Probably i’m bit patriotic also :tongue:

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Hoist your flag and sing along on your national anthem, comrade! :woot:

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Patriotism sucks almost ass much ass Pearl Harbour

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I’d do ANYTHING to get out of the U.S. All my country does is start trouble. the government has no sence of morals at all, and I’m ashamed to live here and call myself an American. :grrr:

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I dont hate the place itself, other than the harsh winters… What i hate is how our governments have ruined this country completly upon these years. We are one of the worlds richest countries, but still our education and health care sucks completly. Schools are falling together, thanks to that no one provided funding for keeping them in shape… Health care has insanely long queues and when they finally get in, they might end up having to stay in the middle of the hallways. The elderly homes are even worse, i dont even want to go into that…’

We also have to pay taxes for everything… Just to get to work, you have to for example drive through road toll stations, even though you already pay insane taxes for it already and many of those roads suffer from bad quality and are nothing more than country like roads.

The government also acts like their citizens are kids who cannot decide what is good for themself, so the government steps in and ban everything that they think is not good for you. They already banned energy drinks like redbull, because they contain too much caffeine. They also want to tax unhealthy food higher, so that people eat less unhealthy food. We also have the worlds highest taxes on alcohol, because of the same reasons as with unhealthy food.

And then you have for example herbs… They banned all those too, including kava kava, st johns wort and calea z. If you try to import anything remotely stimulating, then they will most likely be confiscated by the customs.

They also banned other things like jetski, which was by the reason of them providing no real value with the exception of recreation. I guess you should not be allowed to have fun in this country??

This is just a few examples on this and it seems to get worse for every damn year. I bet you soon will not even be able to take go out on a weekend to drink a few drinks. Not that you can really afford anything but beers these days, thanks to the high taxes.

We are supposed to be rich, but still the average person cannot afford going out to a restaurant with his/her family, which is actually quite common in rest of Europe. We have much money, but the price levels make us more poor than many of the poorer european countries.
That reminds me… we nearly got thrown out of our appartment here the other day, because my family simply dont have enough money for their bills, so we will now have to move to a even smaller place.

But then again, the recent past was even worse… We sterilized and lobotomized certain ethnic groups until the late 70s for example… But sadly most norwegians has already forgotten this fact.

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Bleurgh, I hate patriotism. People say it’s “support of our country”, but all it does is lead to racial/ethnic/immigrant intolerance. I am so ashamed when people tag something as “the Australian Way”, because most often it’s only referring to a certain type of person or a certain type of religion.

I love Australia, but I don’t feel like I should have to prove it by going around singing the anthem or raising the flag or telling everybody how great my country is. It’s enough that I know I like it myself.

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To be born here and not somewhere else is not a big achievement I should be proud of :tongue: The country I live in (Belgium) is pretty artificial in the sense that there isn’t any strong national identity here (except for the occasional sports events). But I do acknowledge I share a lot of customs, cultural heritage etc with other people here, because this is the situation I live in. And that situation is not an idealist globalist idea about the perfect universal human being. I don’t like nationalism and patriotism when it gets conservative, self-indulgent and self-centered, and creates blindness to its own mistakes. But at the same time I don’t like the other extreme.

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I don’t believe in countries.
These imaginary lines that separate us.
Giving us another stupid reason to fight with each other.
As if religion and natural resources wasn’t enough.
I pray every night that one day these lines will dissolve
and we become a single country called Earth.
This prayer comes after my prayer to win the lottery of course.

:bow: $$$$

Hey come on guys, I’ve gotten a “little” nicer.Huh?
I think Q should give me a Most Improved Member Award.

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/me gives Spreaderoffear a moogle oscar for being the most improved member :smile:
–> <–

I agree that the world would be better without all the artificial borders and divisions

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We have pasQuale, and pasQuale made LD4all…
No more needs to be said, that The Netherlands is the best :tongue:

But people above me are right, country patriotism leads to intolerance, fight and other bad things… :sad: