do you consider yourself an American Citizen, or a World Citizen?

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feel free to elaborate on your decision.

[renegade000]

1. both

i mean...i wouldn't think they would be mutually exclusive.

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2. good point. maybe i'll include an other.

[LiberalVoice]

3. World Citizen.

I would give up my American citizenship for a world citizenship in a heart beat. I'm not proud of the country of my birth nor do I wish to represent it.

[tcfrogs]

4. Just out of curiosity

would you be proud of your American citizenship if a Democrat were president?

My view: I don't care who is in office, I am a proud American first and foremost. Doesn't matter to me what wacky policies or lack thereof are in place currently.

[LiberalVoice]

8. I don't care about democrat or repug.

"Joe America" is a self absorbed greedy individual. Who cares only about how easy it is for him to buy a nice pair of jeans as cheap as possible and not care about who has to die for it to happen. Joe America would in fact prefer you not waste his time trying to tell him either.

I'm not speaking for all americans. There are good ones and there are bad ones. But mainstream america is an ignorant immature rascist child.

"America...just a nation of three hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need
to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us
uncomfortable." - Hunter S. Thompson

[Political_Junkie]

11. I agree with both of your posts.

The apathy in this country is sickening.

[renegade000]

6. yeah i know what you mean

my dad used to be proud of being an american citizen, now i think he's leaning toward your view.

i dunno, i still have hope for america, even though right now things are looking rather grim.

[Junkdrawer]

7. Yep. In 1776, the question would be "Are you a Virginian or an American?"

Now, in 1860, that question came to mean something....

[Fla Dem]

5. American citizen, member of the human race.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Nationalism is a plague on the world. I'm an unrepentant "One Worlder"

I feel about the world as Ben Franklin did about the revolution:

"We will either hang together, or hang separately".

Unfortunately, all the various tribes are still proclaiming their glorious Zucchini patch better than everyone else's and are willing to kill for it under the veneer of "Love of Country".

[LiberalVoice]

10. Great post.

I could not agree more with you. It's like John Lennon says, "Imagine theres no countries."

[K-W]

13. Cheers, Group identity is a disease.

Be it school spirit, be it racism, be it nationalism. We are each individual human beings with the same rights as every other individual, no more, no less. Valueing some humans better because they live in the right country is really no better than valueing some humans better because they are a certain color. Either way it obscures from the fundemental fact that we are all human beings.

[Political_Junkie]

16. Well said.

eom

[frebrd]

12. Let's broaden the choice.

I voted for the last choice but, actually, I consider myself a citizen of the Universe.  

Puts things more properly in perspective, IMO.

[Christof]

14. I consider myself a world citizen.

[bo44]

15. I did not have the answer to the "dude what are you question" for years

until I realized that I am just an American. Pilipino surname and multicultural parents not excluded. I speak English, I play ball, I love the blues, and vote Dem how much more American is that?

[stavka]

17. America is still a much better place than where 80% of the world is.

Outside of Western Europe, Canada, a couple of Western Hemisphere Latin countries and the Australian/New Zealand twins....I'm guessing that's close to 20%

I'm not sure I'd want to trade places with anybody...

People here cheat, but there still is a rulebook and they seem to know its cheating.

[Nordic]

18. that's why we don't want to see Bush flush it down the toilet

We value this place and the neocons are destroying it.

Anybody destroys my country, they're gonna hear from me, ya know?

[amjsjc]

19. I'm an American

Not to knit pick, but what exactly does it mean to be a 'world citizen?' (though if it means not going along with the yahoo citizens of this country when they boycott France for not bowing to our foreign policy objectives then, yes, I am one...)

Oh, and for what it's worth I love this country, and the ideals behind it (even if we don't always live up to them), and I will fight like hell to keep them from being co-opted by Bush and company.

[baldguy]

20. Human first, American second.

I wouldn't trade either.

[tritsofme]

21. I'm an American first, and I am Proud!

Not even George Bush can take that away from me!

[DemExpat]

22. World citizen first!

American citizen under a Dem President and European citizen second!

DemEx
(dual US/Dutch citizen)

[Swamp Rat]

23. Human

And I like just about everybody, but I don't hang out with the alien lizards or their slaves.

[Piperay]

24. American

citizen, I don't know what a World citizen would be. :shrug: I vote in American elections which is the privilege of being a citizen, I also pay taxes which is one of duties of an American citizenship.