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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ed" data-source="post: 769831" data-attributes="member: 548">Patriotism and Nationalism have been constantly hijacked throughout history to produce an 'us versus them' mentality. And its very very powerful and dangerous. That's my beef with it. It usually ends in the massive slaughter of people manipulated into supporting it. I'm not saying its all bad, just that it needs keeping an eye on.I also think when you live away from your country, as you are doing now, I tended to get a bit of a rose tinted view of it. When I came back, what came roaring back were the bits that had always pissed me off. In fact it took me a good few years to get the right balance.Yeah I love my country and am proud of it. But I don't place that above anything someone else could feel for theirs. It's not a cynicism at all, it's cautious optimism <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> As for Brits being cool, a couple of episodes of Britain's got talent or the X factor, or perhaps a tv show presented by Danny Dyer should temper your extremism!!! Wherever you go there's cool, but there's always a few knobheads to balance it out!</blockquote>

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