Pride should stem from good personal decisions or accomplishments given one’s situation and life circumstances. Being born somewhere isn’t a decision nor an accomplishment.

  • Kühe sind toll@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    You can be proud about your country. You can be proud about everything that makes your country special. Your food, your traditions,… Why shouldn’t you.

    • 7uWqKj@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, if you’ve got no own accomplishments to be proud of, I guess you can do that.

      • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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        9 months ago

        Sorry you are from a miserable area that has nothing to enjoy and take pride in. I’m from St. Louis originally, and despite it’s many faults, history of racism, and 2 centuries of shooting otself in the foot i still am proud to be from there. The sports teams are my favorite, the Arch is a beautiful monument, and the free services such as the zoo, Art Museum, and Muny theater are all amazing municipal achievements that took the whole community to accomplish.

        You can be proud of where you are from and be open about the faults and problems of that place. Civic pride isn’t blind nationalism.

        • 7uWqKj@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Not sure if you’re being serious, but if you are, you’re perfectly proving my point.

          • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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            9 months ago

            LGBT+ people celebrate pride month for how they were born. Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass,and Malcolm X all took pride in looking like their parents. Ukrainians are proud of their country in the face of Russian invasion. Were all those people dumb for taking pride in something they had no control over?

            It just seems to me that you are ashamed of wherever you are from and can’t understand someone else having prode in their home

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Because you did nothing to create any of that. Appreciating one’s country especially certain aspects of it seems like a good idea. Being proud of it makes no sense. Most countries have some ugly shit in their past. Proud of that too? Not sure you get to pick and choose.