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CMV: People too often advocate national pride without justification.

To be quite honest, I don’t have a *fully* formed opinion on this yet, but I wanted to have a discussion on this topic.

Since I was a child, my mother and other relatives always told me how I should be “proud of my country” and I heard many people say similar things. 

I never understood this because it seems a unreasonable to me to expect someone to be proud of the country of their ethnicity/upbringing. If I bring this up to anyone, most of the time, he/she will be flabbergasted that I’m not proud of my country. 

However, looking at it as objectively as possible, I feel as though your ethnicity or hometown is just a dice tossed when you’re born. I feel lucky that I was born and raised in countries where I have freedom, opportunities to be successful, access to education, etc. I respect the people in the past who have made this possible today and the people who continue to fight for the rights of current and future citizens. 

But I don’t feel pride. Why would I feel pride for living in a country that I did absolutely nothing to be born into? I can appreciate the country and be happy to be part of it, but I wouldn’t feel pride. 

Some people say it’s pride of your culture and your upbringing — of the way you grew up. But again, this isn’t something you chose to be a part of. You are born into wherever you’re born into. You are born to parents that you can’t choose. You didn’t do anything to be part of this culture, so why should you feel pride?

Now, if I were, say, George Washington, and I helped to pioneer the way to a democratic nation, then I would be proud of what I helped accomplish. But in today’s world, especially in America, I feel as though too many people push for national pride as a societal thing (i.e. “it’s just the right thing to do) without justification.
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If your brother broke the 100 meter dash world record, wouldn't you be proud of him, even if you had nothing to do with it and were just coincidentally born to the same family?

Pride (i.e, pride in something external) isn't about what you did to associate with or assist an accomplishment, but about how much you value the achievements of something or someone you already associate yourself with, for whatever reason.