To anyone outside the US, our particular brand of patriotism is very strange. Why is the average American so violently attached to symbols like the American flag? Why is our version of patriotism so dogmatically opposed to actually improving our country? Let's take a look.

Why Is American Patriotism So Weird? – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

Glenn Loury interview
https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/a...

Anti-communist immigration acts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigra...

On American patriotism, nationalism, etc.
   • "They Hate America!" - Weaponizing Pa...  
https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2016/S...
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/john-judi...
https://jacobin.com/2020/05/keir-star...
   • Against Patriotism  
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...
https://www.socialist.net/left-patrio...
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101...
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/mirro...
https://books.google.com/books?id=8hn...
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/07...
https://jacobin.com/2019/03/greg-gran...

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