What does your country/Nationality mean to you ?

Question

What does your country mean to you,

explain.

Answer 1

Countries and nationalities are artificial constructs; they grew up out of the need of agriculturalists to control land in order to prosper.  At present they tend to cause more problems than they resolve.

My nation, the USA, to me means that I was fortunate enough to be born into a society peaceful enough and tolerant enough that a free thinker like myself wouldn't likely get assassinated or imprisoned.  But that was just an accident of birth.

I'm considering moving to another nation, otherwise I don't know how I'll continue to afford health insurance.

So to me, a nation is just like another place of business.  If they offer what I need at a decent price, I'll spend time there.  If not, I'll look for an alternative.

Answer 2

My country and nationality make up a great part of my personal identity and influence my outlook on the world very much. I don't believe people who are lacking in this important department as they seriously approach the ones who would trade their country's interests for their personal well-being. I'm not saying personal well-being is not important, but there is something above it and without ideals and patriotic feelings life is just so much poorer in every respect.

I dread globalism and uniformity and strongly believe in the unity of varieties and a peaceful, yet dynamic co-existence of colourful diversity that multi nationalism brings. I don't think my country is better than all others, but I do love it more than any other. Maybe it's never been or never will be the best, whatever that means, but to me it will. I guess it's a feeling that you either have or not. It can be instilled with love but it can also be deliberately projected. Like all feelings, it's subject to manipulation.

But the fact remains that from art as a higher form of human expression, to everyday life, belonging to a nation plays an important part for most of us. The greatest achievements of human mind and spirit invariably carry a specific, national trait that makes them specific, apart from the universal message.

If kept at its original meaning, the feeling of belonging to a nation or a country is one of the means of positive identification with the community with which we share the same heritage, religion, cultural background, traditions, history and all the rest that make up a national identity.

Answer 3

Home, having somewhere to belong