<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5c0b4aea-0f70-4067-8262-a02a8944ffb0/A8F449BC-CF44-4766-8B64-5BFBCE38FB5E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/my-personal-struggle-to-grapple-with-the-concepts-of-american-ness-and-patriotism/" href="http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/my-personal-struggle-to-grapple-with-the-concepts-of-american-ness-and-patriotism/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.care2.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/my-personal-struggle-to-grapple-with-the-concepts-of-american-ness-and-patriotism/"><H4 id="article_title">My Personal Struggle to Grapple with the Concepts of American-ness and Patriotism</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/my-personal-struggle-to-grapple-with-the-concepts-of-american-ness-and-patriotism/"><DIV>So has that changed? Do I still consider myself a citizen of Pangaea i.e. a global citizen and the answer is—yes but I have now also internalized what I think it means to be an American along with that.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/my-personal-struggle-to-grapple-with-the-concepts-of-american-ness-and-patriotism/"><DIV>I have come to see America as a state of mind not a nation with manmade borders surrounding people who have no common racial, ethnic, or religious bond. That state of mind is what binds us together—the belief in the America philosophy is what makes our nation radically different from many other more homogenous nations. American-ness is a set of actions and attitudes, not a nationality devoted to reflexive loyalty to a government. This state of mind has no national boundaries, when the Iranians were marching in opposition against the outcome of the recent election, they acted like members of America, when Tibetans face down their Chinese oppressors, they are acting like Americans. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A8F449BC-CF44-4766-8B64-5BFBCE38FB5E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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