Many American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints feel very strongly about the founding of the United States. 15 See Rogin, Independence Day, 17. In a talk delivered in 2009, Robert Pirro made a convincing argument that one can detect themes of German wartime suffering and the hopes related to the German reunification in 1989 which are encoded in the visual iconography of Independence Day.
Every year, people like to show the pride they feel for their country by hanging a national flag at their residences. Modern nationalism is rooted, in part, in French and American revolutions that fought for the sovereignty of their people over monarchies. If the intention is political autonomy one even has to talk about nationalism at least under the perspective of its supporters.
He identifies the features of High Toryism as: legitimacy based on custom, history, popular morality, religion, and patriotism; the value of a ruling class; the validity of private property; suspicion of unbridled capitalism; and a belief in one nation of different classes held together by mutual obligations.
Thus, true patriotism must be kept completely distinct from nationalism. A wave of strikes, including some that turned violent, and several terrorist bombings produced a postwar Red Scare, as many patriotic Americans worried that "hyphenated Americans" with radical or revolutionary ideas threatened homeland security.
But if we have the ability—both as human beings and as cooperating members of the
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As Roger Scruton put it, for a liberal state to be secure, the citizens must understand the national interest as something other than the interest of the state. Emmerich works within the confinement of American genres in close collaboration with major Hollywood studios and has earned the reputation of being a patriotic American director par excellence.
At the start of this essay, I said that "patriotism" is the way Americans talk about our nationalism, while "nationalism" is how we talk about other people's patriotism. 1 Both films confront the issue of American patriotism albeit from different angles and at different times.