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 SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every Friday! Citations and Further Reading: Glenn Loury interview https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2023-01-09/conservative-voice-glenn-loury-and-poet-ravi-shankar Anti-communist immigration acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1918 On American patriotism, nationalism, etc. https://youtu.be/FIXRsu2-uGo https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2016/SOC757/um/61816961/Benedict_Anderson_Imagined_Communities.pdf https://jacobin.com/2021/04/john-judis-the-socialist-awakening-review-socialist-left-internationalism-nationalism https://jacobin.com/2020/05/keir-starmer-uk-labour-party-patriotism-britain-royal-family https://youtu.be/f5HyKELG46M https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-nationalism-and-the-national-question https://www.socialist.net/left-patriotism-an-opportunist-disorder.htm https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/qjr21g/communist_american_patriotism/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share https://theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror/p/pl/promise-li-building-self-determination-without-nationalism.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=8hnzDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/07/15/how-the-right-wing-convinces-itself-that-liberals-are-evil/ https://jacobin.com/2019/03/greg-grandin-end-of-the-myth Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman Watch More Second Thought: Latest Uploads: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27 Spaaaaaace!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6v What If...: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--Cvi Popular Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxN About Second Thought: Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome! Business Email: [email protected]