[frogstamper]

I couldn't agree more Vlad, no matter how mindless or downright thick, thugs in the US still have a sense of pride in their country. Over here that has been lost, partly I think due to an"embarrassment" with our colonial past, where-by teachers are saying where we went wrong in the 18th and 19th century's. Of course a lot of things were exploitative, but the Brits also exported a lot of good things as well, among them being parliamentary democracy and our judiciary, which many former colonies still adopt.
I do feel that in the US children are instilled with a sense of national pride from an early age in school, I honestly don't think its anything to do with different cultures and religions because America has to be the biggest melting pot on earth, we here seem to have this sense of embarrassment when it comes to expressing our national pride, unless we can get over that I feel things won't improve, our kids need to feel pride in their country.