If you are born here, how is it that you feel a loyalty to another country and it's peoples?
824065
This is the problem with illegal immigrant they are loyal to their country of origin and all they care about is that country. This is the reason they don't care what they do here in the USA, legal or illegal, all they know that this is not their country and they don't care. Experts say that we the American people have to wait two or three generations of their born in order for them to be loyal to the USA and that's not even guarantee. Mean while they corrupt, steal and drain our economy. You cannot served to god because when the time comes you are going to hate one of them, you have to pick who you are going to serve.Do you think that fair, I don't. I'm an American, proud and will give my life for my country. I almost did in Vietnam as a Special Forces officer.
688744
Citizens should be patriotic to their country.Not the reverse.YOU CAN BECOME PATRIOTIC ANY WHERE
988333
Think about it this way...\nWhy is it that more people try to get into America than any other country?  That should give you an indication on what the rest of the world REALLY thinks about life in America.\n\nConsidering how good it really is here I think we have a right to be proud of our country.\n\nBesides, I have never heard anyone rip other countires for being jingoistic or proud of THEIR country.  Why should we?\n\nGod Bless America.
74912
People don't love their countries because they're the best, the love them because that's where they feel at home.  People like to say that their country is the best, but this is just an emotional expression of their patriotism, and not based on fact.\n\nComparing countries is like comparing apples and oranges, many of them are rotten, but most are good in their own way.
773740
You like where you are from.
774472
I'm originally from the US but moved to, and became a permanent resident of, Canada. My reasoning? I met a guy from online face to face.. we got along.. I went to visit him.. we ended up getting married the next year.\n\nLiving in a country that's different from the one you grew up in does take some getting used to, that's for sure. I find myself getting homesick and nostalgic even after having been here for over 4 years.
1000047
I would move and stay a citizen of my present country.
1025483
I love the US thats why I came here. But some people move here and hate the US at the same time, so if they hate the US then they should move back where they come from.
1148788
When you become a US citizen you have to disavow allegiance to your birth country.Some people have a problem with that.
949721
Perhaps you are confusing "afraid" with "resent". I am not afraid of anyone but I am resentful that foreign peoples come to my country. Take advantage of it's freedoms and educational system. Then return home to their mother country and bad mouth my country and it's people. We Americans are some of the kindest, most generous people on this planet, as well as the most maligned. Your country has an earthquake or flood it will be the American people that come to your aid first. We had a flood in New Orleans and few countries offered assistance to us. After decades of being ostracized by the world it's no wonder we Americans feel the way we do!
951267
Each country has its strengths and weaknesses.  It is not a matter of being better or worse ... we are just different from each other.  It is important to be proud of your own country, and that doesn't require any particular attitude toward another country.  This poem says it all ....\n\nBreathes there the man with soul so dead \nWho never to himself hath said, \nThis is my own, my native land! \nWhose heart hath ne’er within him burned, \nAs home his footsteps he hath turned \nFrom wandering on a foreign strand! \nIf such there breathe, go, mark him well; \nFor him no minstrel raptures swell; \nHigh though his titles, proud his name, \nBoundless his wealth as wish can claim \nDespite those titles, power, and pelf, \nThe wretch, concentred all in self,  \nLiving, shall forfeit fair renown, \nAnd, doubly dying, shall go down  \nTo the vile dust from whence he sprung, \nUnwept, unhonored , and unsung.\n\nfrom The Lay of the Last Minstrel  by Sir Walter Scott who was neither American nor Canadian.
537937
when people move to our country and tell us how great their country is seems crazy to me.one time I went to Mexico on\nvacation crossed the boarder and yelled I'm Mexican I'm Mexican\nbut in  reality I'm American. must have been the drugs
479019
I was born and raised in Germany.  I am definitely a product of my cultural upbringing and mentality.\nBut I was fortunate enough to emigrate to another country thereby assimilating another culture with my own.\nThe best of both worlds really!
897478
We are all proud of our homeland but some choose to show it more than others.\n\nYour question really begs the answer; Why not?
955771
I am one of a dying breed in that I believe that in order to live in a country where you have rights, you sometimes have to fight for them, and while I do believe that everyone is entitled to there beliefs, and has the right to express their opinions there are times when doing so is counter productive for the welfare of the country that you live in. Rights are not without boundaries. My rights stop where yours begin, and the same applies to to yours. If you can't love your country, at least have some respect for it.
552944
be proud of where you are from the land of the free.......if they cant accept that then they are not your friends ....its not like you can change where you are from........
199242
I can answer this.  Having kids says you love your country and that is all there is to it.