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luowei · Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 5

i am very proud of my country- china. its long history and rich culture leaves us the uncompareable wealth.china is a great country!

Miwako · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 5

I'm from Japan. I love my country and Japanese culture.

Syodo (writing with brush), Sado (making green tea and tasting it), Kado(flower arrangement) are very grave, but they make me calm.
They are very old culture.　But, there are many new culture Exclamation

For example, KARAOKE(singing a music) and PURIKURA(Taking pictures). Do you know them? they are popular among young people.
I like them very much Very Happy

Both old culture and new culture are very fantastic Exclamation

So I love Japanese culture.
　

elle1010 · Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2

Of corse, I have proud of Japanese cultre.
We and you can feel Japanese historical culture in Japan.

ryuji21 · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1

I also love my country. I am Japanese! And I respect other asian countries Surprised

anantha krishna · Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 13

I love my country.
Every one must love one's own country. You know, we call India our motherland. The term 'mother' cannot but be loved.
This does not, however, mean and indicate that one should hate other countries.

Acceptance of heterogenous cultures shows broad-mindedness.
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MandyBr · Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 4

Yeah, of course I like to be brazilian!

For me it's a gret country, my culture, my musics, I love "ax�", "samba", who have never heard a brazilian music??

Even "Garota de Ipanema"... or, known an artist, Gisele Bundchen!

I love the way I speak, and can leave in a tropical country, where always is a gret weather and we are always happy, even the things we have... bad things.

But I'm brazilian... and I'll be forever.

Cause It's my country, and my home!!

Nayuka · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Japan

Frankly speaking, I'm not proud of my country, Japan, because it is boring
to live. I think Japan is safe compared with other countries because
civilian can't have guns for illegality. But it costs you a lot of many to
live. If you have a free time, you may not do what you want to without
enough money. My foreign friends always tell me that everything is expensive
in Japan!! I think so too..

Salem Almarri · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Doha

I am proud of my country Qatar. Here in my country all things are very nice. You have here a special place to be happy; for example in the desert in the south of Qatar or on the sea to the north of Qatar. I usually go to the south of Qatar (to Sealine) on the beach. Most people go to Sealine because Sealine is a very nice place. The beach at Al Khour is also a very nice beach to walk and swim. And there are many places in Qatar for shopping; for example, the City Center, Landmark Mall. Come here and you will be happy.
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bo-hamad · Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 1 Location: qatar

I will talk about my country. I live in Qatar. We have many different things in my country. My country is very hot in summer. We have new buildings, new clubs and new streets. Qatar is safer than other countries. We have many beautiful things here. Very Happy

mae · Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Japan

Hi, my name is mae. I live in Japan.

I am proud of my country, Japan. I like the Japanese language.
English is used around the world. But Japanese is used only people who lives in Japan.
I think that we are more proud of our own language. So our language user is fewer than English user.

And I like comic books. It is called "manga" in Japan, and many other countries.
It is not translated from Japanese into English. Such thing is not very.
And manga is very high quality. Therefore, it is loved around the world.

But I don't like Japanese character. So I agree with mizuki09.
Japanese (include me, too) prefer doubtful phrase to clear phrase.
I think that a doubtful phrase is misleading. A doubtful phrase is difficult to tell own exact thoughts.
I think have a pride at own country is very good thing. Are you proud of your country?

hellowjp · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

lol, I'm from Mainland China, and I am very proud of being a Chinese, I think my identity makes me a very lucky girl, and being able to write and read Chinese perfectly is such an advantage...hehe...and I love HOMEMADE Chinese food!!!

Anyhow, I've met so many Koreans who had mistaken me as Korean, even some of my Chinese friends told me that they thought I was Korean the first time they saw me....it makes me wonder sometimes....did my great great grandpa immigrate from North Korea or something?? LOL...It's really funny, they just came up to me, bowed, and then they said "annyonghaseyo"...which I didn't understand the first time...btw, my parents had the same encounter more the once too... Twisted Evil

manolita · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 37

Hi i'm spanish girl i love my country because is different everybody liked to live in spain or not? food is one of the best in the world everybody said many foreigns visit spain every year.There are a lot of actors singers as pedro almodovar that are really good for this pedro has won many prizes for his carrier.etc the only thing that doesn,t like of my contry is people don,t read enough and education isn,t very good.

yuri0919 · Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 17

frankly speaking Rolling Eyes

I'm not proud of my country so much , JAPAN
Yes, our culture can be famous and excellent. I think so, too.
However, about diplomatic field , I can't be proud .

ClarissaMach · Last edited by ClarissaMach on Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:19 am; edited 1 time in total

ClarissaMach · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:12 am Post subject:

Now, answering the question this topic is really about:

I am very proud of my country, despite the violence mentioned by Lucas, or the poverty mentioned by Rui.

On the other hand, the reason why I�m proud of it is not the same of Produsouthamerican: although I am myself one of the victims of the �World Cup fever� and I cheer a lot for Brazil�s team (I can�t prevent crying every time they make a goal!), I don�t think soccer is the more appropriate reason to make one proud of its country -- especially if we have in mind that most part of the Brazilian soccer stars, like Ronaldinho and Ronaldinho Ga�cho, do not live or work in Brazil during the years between the World Cups....

The main reason why I love this country is her people. Sometimes impolite, sometimes uneducated, I know; but always gregarious, always full of love, full of solidarity. For example: there was a discussion about the use of the word �gringo�; yes, we use �gringo� to refer to foreigners, especially if they�re from North America and Europe, but it�s almost in an affectionate way, if not in a funny way. Certainly, our purpose is not offending anyone. Ask a tourist who has been to Rio de Janeiro if he was treated with coldness or disregard by the people; I dare say you won�t never hear a positive answer !

Now, for those who consider nationalism something bad: I believe you can only truly love the others when you love yourself; therefore, I think that you can only truly understand and respect the other nations, if you truly understand and respect your own. We all should keep a critical look at our culture, politics and customs, but it doesn�t mean we can�t root for our countries.

Yesterday I was watching a TV program at Deutsche Welle TV, a Germany channel, that talked about the fact that Germans are finally beginning to feel comfort about expressing their love for their country; they�re not so afraid anymore of being considered nazis just because they feel like cheering for their nation. It was so beautiful to hear it !

Think of it!
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