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		slowpoke on Sept 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do Maybe we could stop asserting that patriotism is in any way, shape or form a positive attribute. It's not.

vijayr on Sept 19, 2011 [–]

Totally agree. It seems that patriotism applies only to "normal" people, not to those huge businesses that operate internationally, across borders. Also, in an age when no country could exist in isolation, what sense does it make to think of just "my country, my society"?

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