Originally posted by blade68
All I can presume is that you're not proud to be Mexican?
I think we're placed in two different frequencies on this issue.
Pride as an emotion involves the development of a sense
of self. Perhaps you are confusing pride with joy?
I am
joyful of being Mexican, if that responds your question,
because it has given the chance of seeing and understanding
many things which perhaps I would not have been faced to
if born somewhere else. That, however, doesn't make me better
or worse or affects in any way my sense of self.
If we define pride as a positive emotion related to one's worth,
arising from praise (self or otherwise), I should ask:
do you
think your worth is different than the worth of others just because
you hold an English passport?
I would say that your worth as a person comes from somewhere else.
Your great ability to make origami figures? The great effort you put
on scoring goals while playing footie with the lads? Your civic courage
to denounce people littering? Your hard work to provide plentiful
emotional and economic satisfactions to your wife and kids? Your
honest filling up of your tax forms and their prompt payment?
You know, buddy, things that you
do, that cost you something
(resources, effort, etc.), not that were given to you just like that.
I mean, are you "proud" of breathing? Are you "proud" of your skin
color? Are you "proud" to be a male?
Dangerous stuff, I tell you.