Patriotic: Democracy and Patriotism

Patriotism is an attachment to one's homeland excluding all the differences caused by the cultural differences that are present within the nation. Patriotism is considered as a devotion to one's country. Each and every person living in a country should be proud of his country. It is true that the reverence for the history of a nation plays an important role in motivating its fellow citizens for improving the prosperity of a nation and contributing to its development .But patriotic regard should be helpful in regard to the nation's progress and not to impede the growth of a nation. Patriotism should come with a understanding that it should inspire the all round development of a country for all the generations to come. Therefore I believe that excessive patriotism should be overcomed so that a nation doesn’t face any problems towards its path of becoming a developed country.
History has shown that excess patriotism has often lead to disruptions of normal life, violence, wars, unifications of many places,etc . Whenever western media reports something negative on China, the ruling party will immediately resort to patriotic and historical sentiment. Government will tell their people that westerners are conspiring to impede the nation's development. Most credulous Chinese can’t accept the westerner’s criticism as they believe that westerners don’t understand their culture and thus their criticism are invalid. Take the democratic movement as an example. Chinese believe that their unique culture and history disallow radical democracy movement. They believe that someday government will become more democratic after the nation achieved the developed country’s status. In doing so they allow government’s power to move into people’s hands. Thus due to excess patriotism, most Chinese fail to see the mishap of their government and thus they keep bad governors in office. Their pride for their history and tradition has hindered the democratic movement.
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