What is your definition of "Patriotic"?

Question

well...?

Answer 1

It's got nothing to do with wearing flag pins and yelling "god bless America" every other minute.  

A patriot loves his/her country the way a parent loves a child:  you see both their flaws and their strengths, and you know your child or your country is not right 100% of the time and can always improve.  You also want to help it be the best that it can.  You also realize that other people's children might be smarter or better than yours, but that doesn't make you love your own child any less.

I hope you can follow my analogy.  

Answer 2

patriot  

1596, "compatriot," from M.Fr. patriote (15c.), from L.L. patriota "fellow-countryman" (6c.), from Gk. patriotes "fellow countryman," from patrios "of one's fathers," patris "fatherland," from pater (gen. patros) "father," with -otes, suffix expressing state or condition. Meaning "loyal and disinterested supporter of one's country" is attested from 1605, but became an ironic term of ridicule or abuse from mid-18c. in England, so that Johnson, who at first defined it as "one whose ruling passion is the love of his country," in his fourth edition added, "It is sometimes used for a factious disturber of the government."

"The name of patriot had become [c.1744] a by-word of derision. Horace Walpole scarcely exaggerated when he said that ... the most popular declaration which a candidate could make on the hustings was that he had never been and never would be a patriot." [Macaulay, "Horace Walpole," 1833]

Somewhat revived in ref. to resistance movements in overrun countries in WWII, it has usually had a positive sense in Amer.Eng., where the phony and rascally variety has been consigned to the word patrioteer (1928). Oriana Fallaci ["The Rage and the Pride," 2002] marvels that Americans, so fond of patriotic, (1757) patriot, and patriotism (1726), lack the root noun and are content to express the idea of patria by cumbersome compounds such as homeland. (Joyce, Shaw, and H.G. Wells all used patria as an Eng. word early 20c., but it failed to stick.)  

Answer 3

It's different for each country.

For our country, it's someone who believes in upholding the Constitution (you know, what our gov't officials swear an oath to)

and is aware the founding documents and what this country is based upon and seeks to maintain that ethic in order to keep our country.

Unfortunately, too many people are dumbed down and believe it means going along with any current gov't that occupies office...and of course the criminals in charge like the people stupid enough to believe that and encourage that view.

That's why the "unpatriotic" or rather, treasonous criminals in gov't can sell our country from under our feet while wearing an american flag and the peasants would never know...

Answer 4

knowing what's good for your country.

Answer 5

Where dissent can be voiced, but is clearly differentiated from verbally belittling our president.  

Answer 6

I am pretty sure it is different than yours...

Answer 7

My definition of “Patriotic” is:

Someone like my Grandfather (We’ll call him Poppy) – Poppy served his nation during WWII because he valued the freedoms this Country offers.  He lived: “All men are created equal”, but if they messed with his family - they only did it once.  When My Poppy heard the national anthem, his eyes always tiered up and his heart swelled with pride.  And for as far back as I can remember, he’d hold my hand way too tight, look me in the eyes and grin that wonderful grin - I miss so much.

Poppy was proud if His Nation – even when he disagreed with his Government.

Answer 8

The exact OPPOSITE of george w bush or his supporters.