Respect for your state, for its history, the desire to change your country for the better, make it more beautiful, cherish and appreciate your homeland - usually this is the manifestation of patriotism of every person. But it would be interesting to know what patriotism is in our time, if the same schoolchildren are ready in case of what to do, like their great-grandfathers, who, being ordinary teenagers, were eager to defend their homeland.
In dictionaries, it is often possible to meet the definition of patriotism as a love for one's native language, to the land, nature and power, which protects its people. Nationalism and patriotism are not identical, but close concepts. They have a number of differences and common characteristics. In addition, patriotism is a derivative of nationalism.
Let's consider an illustrative example of the manifestation of nationalism and patriotism. For example, each family loves, as their home, and their loved ones. But this love is different. If the family moves to another house, it will not grieve so much if one of the relatives dies. That is, patriotism is an extension of the definition of human love for one's home, and nationalism is for the native people.
In patriotism, the main thing is the state, and in nationalism - love, sometimes too fanatical, to its own people. According to a survey among school-age children, the formation of patriotism occurs in:
- Know your history, respect the experience of older generations, its historical past.
- Devotion, as your country, and your own business, ideas, views, family.
- Protection of state values, respect for age-old traditions.
It should be noted that patriotism manifests itself in respect for the cultural values of their country, and in respect for their compatriots. It is believed that the education of love for their homeland should be laid down from an early age, but, alas, patriotism is so free a concept that it can easily go on to racism or nationalism. In recent years, one can notice the wide popularity of various neo-fascist and other organizations. It is in this situation that the problem of patriotism appears. Every person should realize that the manifestation of patriotism is not a fanatical, wild love for his country and his people, but also respect for others. Being respectful of other nationalities, cultures of other countries, a person shows that he is capable of true patriotism, a true devoted love for his country.
True and false patriotism - differences
It also happens that a person only aspires to pretend that with all his heart he is ready to stand up for the values of his state, that she is a true patriot. Its main goal is to achieve personal goals or such a game to the public in order to have a good reputation. This is a false patriotism.
It is worth noting that true and false patriotism is different in that the former is based on true love for the motherland. A person does not seek to communicate this to every passer-by, he simply knows that he is able to stand up for his state at the right time. At the present time, it is sometimes possible to find such a thing as a "crisis of patriotism", caused by a low standard of living of the population and
To avoid the emergence of new organizations with pronounced nationalism or to reduce the number of existing ones, it must be remembered that the feeling of patriotism must emerge from the family, friends of the person, from his memory of his older generation who gave their last strength for the good of their homeland. And it must be remembered that the traditions inherent in them are necessary for each person to multiply.
So, patriotism is necessary to educate yourself, your children, even from birth. After all, because of inept patriotic education society gets people with pronounced antihuman views.