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Originally Posted by KlausPA
Why wouldn't he? See? this is what I don't get... It seems like self criticism makes you unpatriotic. It feels totalitarian-ish to me.
Open your eyes dude, the best democracies are built on self criticism and humbleness, nationalism is what allows the government to stick it to us.
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Again you hit the nail on the head.
Funny thing is too when someone says something positive about their country, without insulting us in anyway; we quickly slam them and immediately claim about how much better we are. It's almost as if the US is some sort of a paradise and the rest of the world is a post Apocalyptic Mad Max universe. Soviet Union believed that the USSR was paradise, everything made in the USSR was best (no matter that it broke down after one use), and that the rest of the world sucked and envied them. North Korea subscribes to that same belief system.