Why should we be patriotic to our country?

Question

this for schoolwork idunno how to express it in words plz help

Answer 1

its a value to be followed by every human being which makes  human being a human.

Answer 2

why should we love our parents?

Answer 3

If you have to ask that question, someone should invite you to live the rest of your life in another country.

Answer 4

because we live in country where we enjoy freedoms and opportunities that many countreis do not and we owe it to the many many people who fought and died to protect those freedoms and opportunities

Answer 5

Because you're still here.

Answer 6

It is quite but natural to love and respect ones own mother, mother tongue and mother land.

It is not why? why not?

it is the basic duty of every person.

Answer 7

You can start by defining what you mean by "patriotic" and "country."

Do you mean love of your neighbors and culture?

Like our affection for our parents, we have a natural affection for the place we happen to be born. Our shared experiences unite us to our neighbors, the highlights (the natural beauty around Seattle, the traditions of Taiwan, the beaches of Cape Town, the grit of New York) almost as much as the low lights (the rain of Seattle, the overcrowding of Taiwan, the crime of Cape Town, the grit of New York).  They give us a sense of community and a sense of belonging.

"He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland."  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

"What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?  ~Lin Yutang

Do you mean love of your government and its policies?

Like our parents, governments often espouse the highest ideals, yet they are fallible. The vast scope of both the tragedies¹ and successes² of my government, the US government, make relegating the way I feel about it to either "love" or "hate" far too simplistic. I love many aspects of current government policies and I hate others... Look up the word 'nationalism,' which too often is what patriotism has become, especially post-9-11...

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"  ~Albert Einstein

"Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots.  What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?"  ~Adlai Stevenson

"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders."  ~Mark Twain

Do you mean pride in your neighbors and culture, or pride in your government?

Pride denotes a sense of personal accomplishment. Like our pride in our parents, (unlike their pride in us, whom they have raised), it's a bit weird to be proud of the country you happen to be born in, something governed by random chance.

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."  ~George Bernard Shaw

Personally, the emotion I feel is more like a mix of love and a profound feeling of luck that I happened to be born where I happen to be born (the US). Lucky to be able to have food on the table, to have the opportunity to get an education, and yes, to have a government however flawed whose founders recognized their fallibility. Thus they gave me the (relative) freedom to speak my mind about those flaws and participate in government to help fix them. In the "pride" sense of the word, using that freedom and power.are perhaps the most patriotic things one can do.

"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't.  You cannot shirk this and be a man.  To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may."  ~Mark Twain

"[P]atriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."  ~Adlai Stevenson