03 Mar 10 Patriotism Is Love

Patriotism is a beautiful thing — to love your country, your land, and your people, and to have a deep emotional affinity. But it can be so easily corrupted to polarized thinking, to harming others and ourselves, if we don’t realize what it is that is beautiful. It is beautiful because it is love. – Patricia Sun.

I love my country, because it is where I was born.
I love this country because it is where I now live.

Both these countries have faults. Nowhere is perfect. That doesn’t mean however, that you can’t love them. To love something is to accept their faults.

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