How many of you
we are in this together familiar with the Flag Code? Coupled with this is the more or less unconscious notion that a measure or criterion of value is how these cultural achievements or historical acts could be presented as a ‘contribution' that enriches the supranational community - of Europe or of mankind in general.
In my reflections about nation formation, I have devoted little attention to the way the nation exists in our minds or imagination and the way it exists in our everyday life in a different sense, where it denotes a supra‐individual unit, a construct that people know about and consciously or unconsciously regard as something positive.
It abuses neither speech nor sense to say that I love my house and for that reason would feel sorrow and deprivation if disaster forced me to leave it. (I have had such an experience.) A country is, among other things, a place, a language (one's mother tongue"), a way of life, and a set of institutions through which collective decisions are made and carried out.
This is representative not only of a partisan distinction in definitions of patriotism, but also of a difference in how those specific media outlets talk about patriotism and American identity. And Labour's housing spokesman, John Healey, insists that the most successful movements of the left have shown pride in the national flag ".
In the nineteenth century, patriotism was increasingly interpreted in a different, nationalist manner, and patriotism and nationalism are nowadays often equated. 4. It's improper to place any other flag of pennant above or on the right of the U.S. flag, if flown at the same level as the American flag.
Thus, the philosophical debate over patriotism takes place in the context of the debate over "special obligations." Here the question is whether patriotism is prohibited (e.g., as necessarily jingoistic, as violating a moral standard of impartiality), permissible (and if so, under what conditions), or a duty (e.g., as a necessary condition for a well-functioning polity, or as a special obligation toward one's fellow citizens).
It is equally clear that one cannot oppose oppression without admitting the right of its victims to rise against it. And, in so far as nationalism helps some oppressed groups organize themselves more effectively, it has to be recognized as a positive feature by all who support their struggle.