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  • USA!!!

  • That's not right at all. Patriotism is a love for your country, it's history and content. Not a hate for all others. That's something else, entirely, often hidden behind patriotism.

  • @AreThereNoMoreNames Loving your own country means you don't look at other countries equally. It means seeing your own country in a positive light and that same light is not shed on other countries. This is a pattern found in racism, sexism, ageism and just about any type of discrimination out there.

  • @Graymoths No, that's not what it means. You can love your own country and not hate the others. There are things I think other countries have done better than the U.S., even.

    It's a false dichotomy to assume you can only love one thing but hate all the others. Are all men who are in love with their wives misogynists? I highly doubt it.

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  • This video is obviously *not* about patriotism, rather, it's an agreeable statement (imho) about Empire. Patriotism or Nationalism aren't defined in the video. It's a simplistic attack by a frustrated teenage mind against what it sees as the cause of all the world's frustrations, including a weirdly comforting idea that some outside force is what makes everyone so miserable.

  • Wow...these comments.

    I love the country I was born in and the country of my mother. Luckily, they are virtually the same country, in terms of custom, habitat, common plastic arts, language, driving rules, shores, sports, TV, movie actors and social mores.

    I would defend either country against invasion, to the death.

  • Patriotism = is the requirement to suffer, die and kill for the benefit of the ELITES.

  • Isn't this Imperialism?

  • FALSE!!

    this is NATIONALISM!

    don't mix it up. I'm patriotic but not a nationalist

  • Pride is one of the Deadly Sins. Pride for a Country is a recipe for blood, discrimination and destruction. Sure, you can like your country and be satisfied with your country and allow yourself to give something back in return, but never believe that your country is the best in the world.

  • Patriotism is just another ideological apparatus used by a wealthy minority to unify the nation - usually when there's a war on and "the people need to be protected". But don't expect, if you support decent health care for the millions who are in want of it, to be called a 'patriot' by the flag suckers.

  • yeah this is obviously new world order propaganda ...

  • It is just a sense of belonging to certain group of people and of course to a piece of land.

    This sense of belonging is proportional to riches you have in your land.

    The more the riches the more patriotic you are because you don't want others to share them.And that is why we have immigration.

    So people may use all the rosy words in the world to describe it.....but it's ultimately just the byproduct of our selfishness which ofcourse is the basic human nature.

  • let me guess, iwhisperwolf...

    you were born in the united states, right?

    yeah, that explains it all.

  • No, I was born in Communist Romania and fought through it's bullshit to get here.

    I love America, like only someone rescued by it can.

  • Also have to add...

    That I don't agree with Emma Goldman.

    This is probably the only subject I'm pretty righty on.

    I think I'm better than the people on death row.

    I think my country is better than those who afford their people little in the way of human rights.

    A country is like a microscope, it allows you so see the people.

    A world with only a wide view, would be open to not only the best of each country, but the absolute worst as well.

    I don't want to be part of the philosophy of tyrants.

  • True patriotism is defensive, It is NEVER offensive.

    Patriotism is remembering that people have died to keep us waking up every morning without another countries soldiers beside our beds.

    It's not a look at the future (Surely we can survive without governments.) It's looking at the past long enough to see sacrifices made to keep us alive.

    Patriotism is the love of ones country, NOT the love of ones government.

    In a world-wide government, I will still be proud of where my people have been.

  • @iwhisperwolf you can formulate it like you want

    but everybody who mean Patriotism is someting good, is blind for the reality, a President, and/or

    a kind of MODERN NAZI

    and by the way when every person represent his contry than i have to tell you, that YOU are a MASS MURDERER, Idiot, and by the way FAT

    (the statistic rallity about the USA).

    Have a nice day, Mc Donalds^^

  • I'm not sure which is more childish, the way you instantly resorted to insults, or the way you called me a Nazi and then insisted that anyone that doesn't share your viewpoint is blind.

    I'm going to do your side of the debate a favor and not use you as the model for your idiom.

    Grow up a little before you debate, it'll save your contemporaries some embarrassment.

  • lett me call it Patriotism, maybe you understand

    now how stupid it is, because you have looked,

    while you read my comment, in nothing else than

    a mirror.

    PS: I know my english is quite bad, the same counts for my russian, spain, german, Chinese

  • This was very creative, different and enjoyable! My second choice.

  • patriotism is as stupid as racism, sexism, classism, fascism, or any other "ism" that splits humanity into particular privileged groups.

    it's a romantic ancient concept kept alive to gain control of the masses. patriotism isn't the love you feel for your native country, but an evil institution.

  • @hiruc duuuuude, are we the only two people in the world who think this shit

  • @mikesomething i seriously hope not.

  • @hiruc Patriotism isn't easily definable either. I would argue that it's more than just "love of your native country."

  • @LoveisintheStars there's nothing wrong with being proud. but let's put things in another perspective. for instance, there's a huge difference between feeling proud of your ancestors, and being racist. patriotism is the institution that leads pride to the edges.

  • @hiruc To the edges? Nothing can be wrong, just because it can lead to edges. Just think! I have a colleague that I don't like. I WON'T KILL HIM. There are female colleagues who I like. I WONT MARRY THEM ALL one by one.

    Keep the golden mean!

  • @hiruc Right! RIGHT! Just we have to think. We love our family. It means, we do for them more that for strangers. Our country is similar. We prefer simply or home, our family our country to other... "strange" countrys. This video and the mentality of presinting this feeleng as an evil attitude is a method to eliminate personality and create masses, that can be easily manipulated!

  • @GergelyMA ok, how? i, on the other hand, see more easily manipulated masses in the name of their country.

  • @hiruc Patriotism is the love of your freedoms and ideals and is used most during times of great terror, in an attempt to spread the good or bad ideals of a country. Patriotism gives people a reason to fight against oppression and if patriotism weren't embraced, the freedoms and pursuit of happiness of the United States would not be protected. Because patriotism can't properly be stated as bluntly as this animation does. It is much more complex and is the reason that people can live happily.

  • @TheHappyPirates how complex? please explain it to me. it doesn't matter where you are born, you are always taught to love a stupid piece of land within some politicaly stablished borders. without a specific context, "freedom" is just another word in the dictionary.

  • its true

    globilism is the only true way for humanity to consider itself

    nationalism is just a band aid solution for when we cant agree

  • Too bad business got ahold of globalism and ruined it. Globalism now is moving well paying jobs to another country, paying slave wages, and wondering why the former workers aren't buying anything. Meanwhile the CEO finds another trophy wife to hang on his arm.

  • Lol SOOO Funny ^^

  • lol so funny

  • this is bullshit

  • Governments , if they cannot Bribe the others to take from others than they use force . It is the duty of a patriot not to allow others to hurt people in their name.

  • A true Patriot does not force his will on others, He protects his people from the attacks of those that live on other spots that want to steal and kill their spot.

  • you mean like US

  • What spot!?

    attacks those that want to steal their spot?

    what spot!?spots mean country...

    and no

    you are just saying...a true patriot protects themselves against war

    And no patriotism is stupid

    and for the stupid

    It's just acting like a pawn for those in the goverment

    Like the sheep in animal farm

  • This totally makes me think of that bit with the Irish and the Brits.

    D:

  • haha! short, sweet and to the point

    and it's true also ^_^

  • very critical and true, certainly ironical but that is what makes the video so good.

  • Sadly true.

    Great animation

    This 1 should win!!

  • Hmm. The way it's defined isn't Patriotism it is actually defining Nationalism--an extreme form of patriotism. Here I liked the concept art and if they just changed the word in which they are defining to the correct one...

  • so this is the meaning of patriotism for "scoundrels". NOT everybody.

  • NICE, GOD BLESS IRAQ

  • This video is based on false concepts. Patriotism is none of those things depicted. This video is geared at making the world ready for a one world government.

  • lame ..

  • Patrotism is in fact a bad thing, if you live it out to bad. That's the same with all other things in life. Nice Video.

  • great animation - this should win

  • Thoughtful animation effectively done. Thanks to creator(s).

  • whoop-dee-frikin--dooo

  • Definition FAIL -- patriotism is not synonymous with nationalism...

    This is pretty embarrassing for the History Channel, IMO.

  • Patriotism is just as ridiculous as nationalism. If you're patriotic you take pride in achievements that were not your own.

  • @R0undAboutMidnight Not all of us were born in periods of unrest or revolution. What's wrong with saying I'm proud to live in a country where we're provided the right to say whatever we feel like and the Founders had enough foresight to protect basic freedoms they weren't afforded?

  • @LoveisintheStars There's a difference between being happy with where you live and being proud with where you live. I am happy that I was born in the UK, but I feel no pride for it. What other people have done or will do isn't something I should feel proud about.

  • @cjoe94 Why? My father did lot of good things. And I am proud of him. This is a human, and beutuful and unselfish (!!!) feeling, to can be proud of others. The country is a big family.

  • monkeys

  • white power :))

  • Yeah, makes sense.

  • LMAO thats so fucked up and true hahah

  • A satire on war. Funny, but perhaps not the best timing. Still, interesting view on an explosive topic.

  • agreed

  • Just look at North Korea.. yep they sure are proud.

  • My spot is so much cooler than you losers from other spots! My spot FTW.

  • which is why it never is about people..

  • what if every youtuber voted?

  • we`d have war..

    oh wait, we do >3

  • people talk much about change, but do very little.

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  • That`s what people do. It`s always about individuals.

  • Does that include yourself?

  • I can`t decide between of course and not yet.

  • You know, uncle Joseph and uncle Karl would be so proud of this video.  They would see that you grew up just the way that they wanted.

  • reminds me of Americans :p

  • pffft! Ya!

  • lol

  • JESUS ALL OF YOU GET A SENSE OF HUMOUR! Can we all not seem a complete supercilious TWAT here?

  • Emma Goldman is a Anarchist who promoted violent revolution. Sandra Oh is a Environmentalist interested Actress. As for David Chen he is hard to track down as his name is a very common name.

    So you decide if they intended this video as a joke or as a serious judgment against Patriotism.

  • Hahahahaha! Awesome. I love you.

  • Glorious video

  • Its true up to 34 seconds. Patriotism should instead be: we have it better lets spread it around and show people that our way of doing things leads to a better life. Patriotism - or indeed any aspect of sociology or anthropology - lead in practice to this divide whereby one choice leads to manipulation and evil and another to persuasion and good. To say that patriotism is for scoundrels is wrong but to say it is for saints is wrong as well - it is how it is used.

  • similarly you can go to the next level - I'm a British patriot, I love our ability to compete against much larger countries in sport, invention, discovery et.c. our history the fact we are the centre of modern law and birthplace of modern democracy, the first empire ever to ban slavery and slave trading, the NHS and the BBC. However I hate chavs, knife crime, the BNP (nazis), stupid banking laws, totalitarian police, idiotic politicians and bloody awful news media et.c.

    Its all about balance!

  • good title, that's what scoundrels think of patriotism

  • I find it intresting the history channel would be pushing political cartoons with this aggressive view on pariotism, Honest Abe was a patriot so was JFK yet this tripe makes it seem likes it bad to be one........Can you say globalist-one world order tyrants.

  • Abe and JKF were INCHARGE of a country. What possible benefit would they have in decrying patriotism? To tackle the point more head-on the great men you refer to fight for the world against inequality and evil in their sight. They might be patriots but that is a co-incidence not a cause of there greatness. Patriotism can stand in the way of self examination and for oppression. But use it wisely and with good humour and it can unite us in our darkest times. "Ask not what ..."

  • " self examination and for oppression"

    Obviously you are biased to the fact they had something greater than themselfs to believe in such as building,maintaining & strengthening the greatest freest nation on the face of the planet.

  • You are not using the word "biased" in a way I can understand. I think you must mean that I oppose their actions. I think the problem here is that you have imagined a conspiracy of world governance which - even if true - will take many hundreds of years to impose effectively. Then, even if they are successful humans tend to react badly to these kinds of plots, guillotine badly. Humans kick arse, so don't worry so much :)

  • Balls

  • LOL!!! This is awesome!

  • This SHORT clip makes a valid point. Patriotism is really arrogance and ignorance in reality. In order to be "patriotic", you must think your country is better than others. I like the IDEA of American life - but the fact is america is a bully in the world. That is not right. Stop the war, stop the hate, end the fighting!

  • I disagree. What is wrong with the idea that you are proud of your particular country and their accomplishments? Patriotism doesn't necessarily mean arrogance, etc. One can be patriotic, and not necessarily inhabit any of the other traits shown in this video.

    Furthermore, anyone from any nation can be patriotic. Germans, Swedish, Brazilian. To be patriotic is to love one's country. Patriotism isn't limited to Americans....

  • I didn't say patriotism was ONLY American. But, America is a GREAT example of why "patriotism" is not good. Many people have bought the government's story for years. Look where we are. We are engaged in two wars (which will never really end), and most people still think that other countries pick on us. America is a bully on the world stage. And those who think that "war can bring peace", obviously haven't studied their history.

  • America is the greatest country ever.

  • Patriotism has no real grounds at all. So, why participate in it?

  • It seems to me if your particular spot is superior to the others than patriotism isn't required; reason and evidence should show this to be the case. If patriotism, as described by webster, is required to be mindless and obstinate then it's always going to be false, stunting and dangerous.

    It seems to me patriotism held hand in hand with reason can't tolerate scoundrels, but mindless patriotism can tolerate nothing but scoundrels.

    The difference is reasonable people make their spots better.

  • good. so lets change. stop new wars.....

  • ... i did not like this video.

  • ok that won?

  • ha, thats pretty informative... i liked it...

    edgy

  • Hello, title says it all... It's Pariotism for SCOUNDRELS! not the whole world, just the people that twist it into a weapon. Patriotism can exist without it being ignorantly prejudice, but alot of people make it that way. Just like they make a million other things that way. Religion, Race, God, even sexual fucking preference. Some people are just desperate to fight, and they'll use any excuse they can get their grubby little fists on, you know?

  • You raise a good point. What perhaps you are talking about is what I would refer to as extremism.

  • and extremism is . . . . bad? XD sorry, I'm not at all familiar with the term.

  • Then maybe they should make one about environmentalist and globalist use their goals as weapons to attack people, how they live, where they live, what they eat, what they drive and countless other 'weapons'.

  • right, cause that's a realistic goal....

    How long do you think that would take exactly? Come on, at least be reasonable. They picked a subject that they were passionate about and worked hard to portray their views... it's not fair for you to pass judgment just because you don't agree with their political standing or beliefs.

  • Fighting just doesn't stop idiots. People will always confront each other and unless people drastically change their values or government is super strict peace can never be achieved. Sure having wars all the time is stupid but people will fight anyways and you can't change the fact people will have different views and beliefs.

  • ...step three, receive bacon.

  • i do believe this is a new level of fail.

  • This is not patriotism, its extremism.

  • What exactly is wrong with wanting to protect one's country? This is bullshit.

  • what is wrong with a human race wanting to protect the only home the earth.. we have bigger fish to fry and that is stop fighting and would look at that we might just all get a long.. wow! Humans getting for once Oh my!! Lions tigers and bears Oh my.. and humans get a long.. Yes!! people it is possible to get a long in this world.. put down you weapons and start working together.. Money means shit, shit is money! we all need to protect our Home NOW!!

  • Well I can't say I agree with your little definition, but the presentation was interesting, so 3 stars.

  • why do all the celebrities think that their opinion matters? just because they are in movies doesn't mean they have to try and persuade us to think the way they do. this is a stupid competition.

  • This is propaganda. Clearly so. Patriotism is depicted as bad, and this video wants to make you feel guilty for being a patriot - whatever your country might be. Well the truth, unfortunately for these guys, is that patriotism is something too strong and too noble to be labeled as a bad thing by the fucking history channel. Stop this brainwashing. Globalization has its limits.

  • Obviously you are one of the people depicted in that video, maybe you should watch it again...

  • Um, patriotism is bad

    It makes you believe that people in your country are better than people in others.

  • i love this.

  • haha it said duty!!

  • this should be played round the clock all days in the US until they understand it!!!

  • So that's what patriotisum means! It all makes sence, if no one was patriotic there wouldn't be any wars.

  • No it's not what patriotism means. Try finding another video,book,show etc that hits on the "other" side of the topic.

    btw thats the best way to conclude anything.

  • Ameeerriiicaaa.. FUCK YEAH!

  • This view of Patriotism is twisted, but not completely incorrect.

  • Dude... Matt Damon... Awesome.

  • Manifest Destiny...... Read Flayboys the first 100 pages are a great example of this video.

  • haha agree with that ^^

  • uve got to admit thats how its worked for centuries, and i thnik it would be better to jsut work together

  • Don't blame him. It was a celebrity who said this. He just put in music and the graphics.

  • Means that the weaker will be killed and that the better (stronger) ones will survive and evolve to the next higher dominant species :).

  • survival of the fittest. I would normally agree, yet in the current situation, fitting in is saying you believe in peace and cooperation between nations.

    So I secretly agree, yet I don't show it on the outside ^^

  • Same here :).

  • you have no clue how evolution actually works do you

  • Actually I do, problem is, for making a state to you (as in a point) it will take to much time + my English isn't that great, but in my language it's easy to explain.

  • it's just that your previous statement contained a fundamental flaw in how it actually works

    but ill take your word for it :P

  • very good.  it makes a point.

  • aniBOOM = Globalist Shills

    It's the governments that kill.

  • lol u really dont understand do you.

  • Lavitz00 - i understand that this is some typical globalist type propaganda that refuses to point the finger at the governments or the elite ruling class. this is just typical liberal style bullshit that makes the public think that they're the ones waging wars in different counties. same bullshit as "a overpopulation problem" or "man made global warming". there's a difference between being a patriot for freedom and being a nationalistic racist. more people need to get on board with anarchy.

  • Yay anarchy! Then everyone will die! ...That's what you want, right? FYI, there IS overpopulation, and man DID create global warming. It's fact.

  • SinistralEbb: The Basque bombers are patriots. The IRA members are patriots. Serbs are patriots. And what does freedom has to do with patriotism? Patriotism in the opposite: narrowing your mind.

  • up the RA

  • This video is really cool, dun know why so many people are dissing it. Five stars from me!

  • ya know, I almost found that offensive until I saw the title "patriotism for Scoundrels" well made my dear, well made =p

    though there is such a thing as just being proud where you come from, and not being a jerk about it. =p

  • Nicely put, nicely put

  • This video was terrible.

  • This is the principle of evolution, it's in our nature.

  • Given your atavistic perspective I assume that you simply take a dump in the garden and kick leaves over your steaming offering.

  • The principle of evolution is adaptation, not survival of the fittest as propaganda tricks you into believing.

  • It's boath :)

  • good video, and too true...people are funny creatures.

  • i like it. dunno if it'd win, but i very much like the animation style.

  • cool

  • nnice :)

  • Patriotism is another perplexing complex that we have as an instinctive vice holding us back as a species from further progression with our relations. Almost as bad as beliving in a 2,000 year old book written by a group of dillusional medieval savages with flawed moral capacity and no sense of rationality. I give us another century before we wipe ourselves out.

  • wow.... you live a tragic life if that's all the hope you allow yourself.... XD

  • really winner

  • language plays a huge roll if we didnt speak different languages we would not fight so much also race if we all looked the same we probally wouldnt fight so much also cultures then again if everything was the same life would be boring :/

  • You should go to Norway to make an example. We got lots of them there... XD

  • very well done

  • cool

  • Once again... absurd of humanity ^_^ One other absurd is religion... so, when I'm asked what religion do I belong to, I always say "I don't believe in religion... I believe in God" ^_^

  • THANK YOU! freaking FINALLY! someone who get's the difference between faith and religion. You don't have to have religion to have faith, and you don't automatically have faith simply because you sit your ass in a pew on any given day for an hour and then go on with your life as if it were nothing more than a doctor's appointment.

  • thats a crappy one!

    Its not like being patriotic means being racist or fashist ....or whatever has to do with the "dark side"

    Low Road was better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • fascist not fashist