Patriotism

[anotheoldgit]

Why do some criticise their own country so much, and prefer to take the foreigners point of view, yet when it comes to Football or Cricket, they will support their particular teams with passion?

[Sandy-Wroe]

Because we're a free people. If we don't like some aspect of our governments policy we can voice our opinion.
The people of China, North Korea, and many other countries don't have that privilege.

[anotheoldgit]

In that sole aspect I agree with you, but You didn't answer the full question.

[dothawkes31]

I'm not one of the 'some' i'm not interested enough in what goes on outside lancashire to bother.

[Sandy-Wroe]

Where is the incongruity? I support 'our teams' and disagree with aspects of our foreign policy. I'm free to do both.

[society]

self-opinionated, confused, misguided and free to think... if they can. :-)

[alavahalf]

What does ...incongruity..mean.?

[123everton]

Because sometimes AOG we're wrong, history shows us what this blind form of patriotism brings us, the Zulu war and the second Anglo Boer war we're opposed by large swathes of the British people only to be attacked by angry crowds, the unfortunate appearance of facts served to do little by the way of tempering them.
The Suffragist movement was viewed as damned unpatriotic by some, the removal of the right to rule by the aristocracy was viewed likewise by some.
Martin Luther King spoke out passionately against the Vietnam war, American foreign and domestic policy also was he not a patriot?

[MarkRae]

> What does incongruity mean.?

http://tinyurl.com/y9vj2cb

[Snafu03]

If you dont feel a pang of pride when you see 'our boys' misbehaving abroad, keeping up the name of our fighting nation then you're not English my man.

[naomi24]

There can be no comparison, AOG, and frankly I can't see where you're coming from with this question.

[Androcles]

As Flanders and Swann put it:

"And all the world over each nation's the same
They've simply no notion of playing the game
They argue with umpires, they cheer when they've won
And they practice before hand which spoils all the fun

The English the English the English are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest

It's not that they're wicked or naturally bad
It's just that they're foreign that makes them so mad
The English are all that a nation should be
And the pride of the English are AOG and me"