There is a divine connection. I am mindful of the formulation that I think first appeared in the Book of Isaiah: "I shall be your God, and you shall be my people." The parallel might be "I shall be your native son, and you shall be my people." A mixture of kinship bond, loving fellowship, and a sense of duty toward all.
Another resonance is with the phrase from the movie "Excalibur" (1981): "The Land and the King are One"---that there is a metaphysical link between a land and its sovereign, such that if there is prosperity with the one, there will be prosperity with the other, and likewise malady. This is more mystical, but it resonates with the feeling that one's well-being is absolutely linked with the well-being of one's native land and people. We are not solitary islands. We are human beings. If one can say, "To Hell with the others," that is not a basis from which to expect patriotism.
And also the love of the symbols of our native (or adopted) land, because of what they symbolize. Siegel and Shuster did not do badly to cite "truth, justice, and the American way" as being the guiding ethic of Superman, the ultimate adopted immigrant. In some sense, as Americans, we should live to a higher calling, than being merely ourselves.
Patriotism to me is plain common sense of running a country.
I concur with your comment. Can I get a Harrumph?
Harrumph!
"Under God".
Something something about the Creator being above and sovereign over the creation.
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There is a divine connection. I am mindful of the formulation that I think first appeared in the Book of Isaiah: "I shall be your God, and you shall be my people." The parallel might be "I shall be your native son, and you shall be my people." A mixture of kinship bond, loving fellowship, and a sense of duty toward all.
Another resonance is with the phrase from the movie "Excalibur" (1981): "The Land and the King are One"---that there is a metaphysical link between a land and its sovereign, such that if there is prosperity with the one, there will be prosperity with the other, and likewise malady. This is more mystical, but it resonates with the feeling that one's well-being is absolutely linked with the well-being of one's native land and people. We are not solitary islands. We are human beings. If one can say, "To Hell with the others," that is not a basis from which to expect patriotism.
And also the love of the symbols of our native (or adopted) land, because of what they symbolize. Siegel and Shuster did not do badly to cite "truth, justice, and the American way" as being the guiding ethic of Superman, the ultimate adopted immigrant. In some sense, as Americans, we should live to a higher calling, than being merely ourselves.
"Under God".
Added a few decades ago to The Pledge of Allegiance which is also a recent addition to " the American way".
Relevant? I don't know.
Tribalistic versus Transcendent?
"Ones own people"
Sincere question.
How is this defined?
Fwiw Q shared a definition of patriotism.