Why Is American Patriotism So Weird?
To anyone outside the US, our particular brand of patriotism is very strange. Why is the average American so violently attached to symbols like the American flag? Why is our version of patriotism so dogmatically opposed to actually improving our country? Let's take a look.
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Citations and Further Reading:
Glenn Loury interview
https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2023-01-09/conservative-voice-glenn-loury-and-poet-ravi-shankar
Anti-communist immigration acts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1918
On American patriotism, nationalism, etc.
https://youtu.be/FIXRsu2-uGo
https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2016/SOC757/um/61816961/Benedict_Anderson_Imagined_Communities.pdf
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/john-judis-the-socialist-awakening-review-socialist-left-internationalism-nationalism
https://jacobin.com/2020/05/keir-starmer-uk-labour-party-patriotism-britain-royal-family
https://youtu.be/f5HyKELG46M
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-nationalism-and-the-national-question
https://www.socialist.net/left-patriotism-an-opportunist-disorder.htm
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/qjr21g/communist_american_patriotism/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror/p/pl/promise-li-building-self-determination-without-nationalism.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=8hnzDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/07/15/how-the-right-wing-convinces-itself-that-liberals-are-evil/
https://jacobin.com/2019/03/greg-grandin-end-of-the-myth
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Why Is American Patriotism So Weird? – Second Thought
SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS
New video every Friday!
Citations and Further Reading:
Glenn Loury interview
https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2023-01-09/conservative-voice-glenn-loury-and-poet-ravi-shankar
Anti-communist immigration acts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1918
On American patriotism, nationalism, etc.
https://youtu.be/FIXRsu2-uGo
https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2016/SOC757/um/61816961/Benedict_Anderson_Imagined_Communities.pdf
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/john-judis-the-socialist-awakening-review-socialist-left-internationalism-nationalism
https://jacobin.com/2020/05/keir-starmer-uk-labour-party-patriotism-britain-royal-family
https://youtu.be/f5HyKELG46M
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-nationalism-and-the-national-question
https://www.socialist.net/left-patriotism-an-opportunist-disorder.htm
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/qjr21g/communist_american_patriotism/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror/p/pl/promise-li-building-self-determination-without-nationalism.pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=8hnzDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/07/15/how-the-right-wing-convinces-itself-that-liberals-are-evil/
https://jacobin.com/2019/03/greg-grandin-end-of-the-myth
Follow and Support Second Thought!
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About Second Thought:
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