Something I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really get or understand:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re an American, why be anti-American?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Or in other words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m an American, why am I not allowed to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153proud to be an American\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
For example, there doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to be a concept such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American pride\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. There is Gay pride, there is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Asian Pride\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (popular when I was a kid), etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t people from a certain nationality<\/a>, ethnicity, race<\/a>, etc be proud of their nationality? Or where they came from? Or their ancestry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Something I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really get or understand: If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re an American, why be anti-American? Or in other words: If I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m an American, why am I not allowed to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153proud to be an American\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/american-eagle-1336x2000-1.jpg?fit=1336%2C2000&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269160,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269155\/revisions\/269160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}