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That's what I thought too, Tali. I had a mental image of Americans all having implants that told them not to sing the national anthem but them doing it anyhow, in a BRAVEHEART!!!!!! sort of way.

Well, I would refer to myself as an implant..as in something that does not belong..if I were to move to ..let's say Ireland, go to college there, have my family there, make a living there and continue to hate everything about it and its native people.


I don't understand why people hate everything about my wonderful country and continue to stay when they have a fine country of their own they may return to.

Who are these supposed people you're talking about?


I know a lot of people who arn't 5th generation Americans and none of them hate everything about the country. Many of them are not mindless patriots, either, though, and they have enough perspective to know what parts of America are good and which arn't so good.


What I commonly find in Japan and America from mindless patriots is that they don't understand that "my country" isn't a debate ender. People with life experiences in more than one country often realize that "the nation" is just a made up idea that doesn't ultimately mean anything on its own. Asking why they don't go back to "their country" is a classic example of this disconnect. The people you're talking about see two places, each with different advantages and disadvantages, not two mythical entities the way you do.


People without perspective tend to take any criticism by "foreigners" of their country personally and as an attack on their whole way of life because they can't seperate the mythical entity from reality.