Americans have grown less proud of their country’s history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
Americans’ pride in the U.S. on several key attributes has dropped since 2017 — including the nation’s military and its political influence around the globe — according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. This poll was conducted in April, as the United States and Iran fought over the Strait of Hormuz in a prolonged war that started with the U.S. and Israel launching strikes on Iran.
New Gallup polling also finds that only 53% of U.S. adults are “extremely” or “very” proud to be an American, the lowest reading in the trend dating back to 2001.
Can’t say that I ever felt pride as an American. What IS an American anyway? I don’t feel kinship with much of the land and its peoples.
I don’t understand how you don’t feel a kinship with the land. If you mean that it’s fucked up how America came to “own” it then yeah, that’s fucked up, but the land didn’t do that, fucked up people did. I love the beautiful land of America so much and that’s honestly the biggest/only thing I’m proud to be American for right now, and I spend as much time enjoying it as I can.
I would probably feel more pride and connection if it weren’t for the fact that it’s only mine to enjoy because of theft and genocide.
It would also help if so much of it weren’t covered in parking lots, strip malls, and car dealerships.
I haven’t ever had enough money to travel beyond my city, nor to afford third places. My PC is the world to me, because it is the closest I can get to wandering off to somewhere else.
For people who lack wealth, it is difficult to develop a connection with many places, let alone a deep one. The Lincoln Memorial, Yellow Stone Park, Florida, Hawaii, all are just places in a picture. No different from Cuba, Switzerland, or Japan. All these places are even more fictional than those in my videogames, because I can’t even visit.