One of the most important tools that any government can take advantage of to advance its control is the patriotism of its people. Throughout the history of the world patriotism has been used to justify war, injustice against others and to manipulate a whole population of people. Patriotism is not a word which is meant to have negative effects. As the Merriam Webster online dictionary defines it, patriotism is the "love for or devotion to one's country". The problem is that many corrupt governments throughout the world, including ours here in the United States, are using patriotism to advance their own interests which have negative effects on the world as a whole. In this essay I plan to show how our government has used the patriotism …show more content…
The United States government uses patriotism to combat the guilt most Americans would feel about some of the unjust policies the administration implements. Most Americans strongly support and believe in world liberation and human rights for all throughout the world but they are blinded by the U.S government and the calls for patriotism this government puts out. After the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1947 then United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066 which ultimately placed over 120,000 people of Japanese decent in internment camps. No matter that 66% of those people were American citizens and that many Japanese-Americans joined up to fight for America against the Japanese. Roosevelt was able to use the attack as a sign that Americans must sacrifice for their country during a time of national crises. Most Americans supported the move to place Japanese-Americans in internment camps because of the rhetoric used by the U.S government at the time. If you did not support the government and all the actions it took at the time than you were labeled as un-patriotic, which branded you an outcast. …show more content…
Having love and pride for one's nation is never a bad thing. However, when we use patriotism to cause injustice against people of the world or against our own then we cannot stand for it. Being a patriot in the United States means supporting the constitution of the United States to the fullest and not just supporting the administration in charge. People who fight and have fought for equal rights of minorities, the poor, women and gay rights are this nation's true patriots. People who fight against the patriot act are performing the most patriotic of acts. We cannot let our government representatives use patriotism as an excuse to advance the power of the wealthy elite. The statement "our country right or wrong" has no place in our society. Being a patriot in America means being informed of your human and constitutional rights. Americans must understand that being critical of this nation and some of its policies is never a bad thing and should never be seen as unpatriotic. You can call for peace after being attacked and still be patriotic. Our nation has caused much harm and damage to the world and our own people. We cannot sit back and support everything our nation does and has done just because we were attacked by nineteen guys armed with box cutters. We cannot give our government the green light to wreck havoc throughout the world just because we are told by the people in charge
There are also foreshadowing events that occurred during the story. One event in particular is when she is in art class and asked to draw a tree and she has difficulty in presenting her ideas until Mr. Freeman asks her to make a collage using random items. After putting the collage together, Mr. Freeman comments that it represents pain. Melinda has difficulty drawing details and life into her trees just like in her own life s...
Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: Touchstone, 1996.
The 2020 Centura Health strategy is calling for an updated way to care for those in their communities. One of these updates includes changing the way people are using the healthcare system. Centura Health is beginning to focus on the health of their consumers (Centura Executives, 2009). This is a large difference from the past. In the past health care providers focused on the sickness care. Sickness care is focusing on the consumer only when they become ill or injured. Centura Health is focusing on the health of their communities to help keep them out of their acute care facilities such as their
...tion, free from slavery, free from prejudice- free from our past? “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe” -Albert Einstein. Is there a reason why our kind have always looked down on each other? From the world wars,to the black rights movement ,and now the gay rights movement- is seems we can never really get along and agree to the same ideas. But what if we did- would our world be as scarred as it is today? We may never know.
Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: Touchstone, 2007.
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Simon Keller argues in his essay "Patriotism as Bad Faith" that patriotism is not a virtue but it is actually a vice. Keller begins by splitting the views on this philosophical debate into three different representations. The first being the "communitarian patriot", where patriotism is not only a valued virtue to someone's self but that it is actually an essential virtue. The second representation is a radical contradiction of the first, known as the "hard universalist. The hard Universalist sees patriotism as a vice instead of being any type of positive virtue. They think that everyone should be valued the same, and that there should be no favoritism. The third representation is the idea of the first two combined, to form what is called the "soft universalist." This view is understood as patriotism is allowed, and is not seen as a vice, but also that one has an obligation to the rest of the world, almost to try and treat them as a loyalty that you would have towards your own country. (p.112).
The purpose for which government has been instituted, according to Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, is “because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.” In an effort to constrain men’s passions, nations and revolutionary groups have tried many forms of government. But the institution of a new government necessitates some form of revolution, either violent or peaceful. In many cases, the onset of this revolution begins with the subjugation of a people, often through the process of colonizing a land which is already inhabited.
The Germans did great damage, and they sunk many of the British merchant ships, (see appendix 1) and if this battle had not been declared, Britain would have been in a very bad situation. Britain was once the world’s largest ship-building nations, and they could easily replace the ships that were sunk but, soon they were not able to keep up with the damage that the German...
Tindall, G. B., & Shi, D. E. (2010). America, a narrative history (8th ed., Vol. 1).
In times of war, such as these, the importance for everyone to know where they stand on the idea of patriotism so they can voice or enact their opinion to the government and the people around them in a more clear and fair fashion is multiplied. The idea of patriotism can often be an obscure one, and during times of heightened security patriotism is a more spoken upon subject. Discussing the many different views of what patriotism means is a key step in better defining patriotism for all people. Barbara Kingsolver says in her article, “My patriotic duty is to recapture my flag from the men now waving it in the name of jingoism and censorship” (Pg. 2). What she means by this is that the idea of patriotism is being morphed into something it is not. She believes patriotism should encourage free speech and criticism of our leaders in times of difficult decisions. Instead, what is happening is patriotism is suggesting more fascist ideals than democratic ideals. Barbara believes her duty is to recapture the true meaning of patriotism and let everyone know what that meaning is. She wants everyone to feel open towards voicing t...
To begin with, Americans show their pride in their country by loyally defending her at all costs. America’s turf is one thing that at all costs others avoid. If someone hurts an American, be assured the patriots will commit in full-force to do whatever is necessary to bring about justice. For example, when the pirates tried to seize a U.S. ship and
Despite earlier resistance to the war by the American people, once war was declared patriotism swept over the nation. However, patriotism rose to it?s peak and quickly turned to an intolerance for any kind of dissidence of the war.
Chomsky, Noam. Understanding Power, The Indispensable Chromsky. Eds. Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel. New York: New Press, 2002. 135.
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