I could move to Canada (pseudo-USA) or Germany (nice enough place). I'd have to ditch my favorite hobby, but I could take up something else.
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It may seem hokey, but I do love my country. For all its problems, I think the United States is the best country on earth; it's an amazing place full of the world's peoples and those of us that live here should take more time to experience the far corners of it before we decide that "it all sucks" and that we'd be better off elsewhere. I haven't seen much, but I can say that Chicago IL is not Burlington VT, Arlington TX is not Richmond VA. It's crazy different. Such a vast, heterogeneous country demands exploration. I mean, c'mon... we've got Yellowstone Park, the I'm-Not-Crying-In-Public monuments of Washington DC, the Hershey's chocolate factory, we're home to cruiser motorcycles, and the biggest rubber band ball in the world.
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Originally Posted by genuinegirly
I'm probably wrong, but citizenship seems like a concept that will die out within my lifetime.
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I can't quite place why, but this thought makes me kinda sad. Citizenship is important not only as a method to organize people (a convenient temporal-spatial cubby, if you will), but it's something that should encourage development in a region. It doesn't have to be about race or religion... but just... taking pride in a place because you're from there, your family is from there, you've worked hard there, etc. I have to believe that
place matters.
Seems patriotism, as an active religion, is hurtin' pretty bad these days. There is no great crusade and our selfish, obese hands lay idle.