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Originally Posted by downquark1
Patriotism = environmentalism ??
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Partially.
It's stading up for your own country if people are unjustifiably trying to put it down.
It's admitting that there's something wrong with your country and then doing something to set it right.
It's fighting to the death to prevent an external force eradicating or even just changing your country against the wishes of the people.
Take our soldiers who fought in WW1 and WW2, they didn't do it because the goverment asked them to, they did it because as patriots they weren't going to let some foreign army barge in and change Britain.
The Polish airmen who risked and gave their lives defending us did so because as patriots, they saw it as a step towards freeing Poland.
Sure, patriotism is one of those wooly words like honour, and valour that's hard to totally pin down because it's quite personal.