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whether or not Europeans are likely to ever adopt the standard United States view of
patriotism during times of war that sees public dissent while troops are engaged in
combat as being unpatriotic. The conclusion of the article is that they will not.
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numerous and constant questions regarding what is and is not patriotic behavior. There are those in the United States who believe that other Americans who protested their governments moves against
Iraq to be thoroughly unpatriotic and fundamentally disloyal to their country. And yet, a countless number of the protesters see themselves as "patriots for peace" who believe that it is
both their moral and patriotic duty to argue against the war and to do whatever was possible to convince their elected officials to not support the Bush Administrations initiatives for
war. When one considers whether or not similar attitudes could evolve in the European Union, a number of questions must be asked and answered. The student working on this
project should have a solid basis for making their argument, regardless of what it may be. What they are likely to find is that, regardless of the unification of the
nations of Europe, they still retain their unique cultural and ethnic loyalties and sensibilities that far outweigh the new economic and political structure that is the European Union. The Germans
can never forget that they and their government were the aggressors in two World Wars. Likewise, the French cannot easily forget the devastation wreaked on their homeland in those wars.
Countless examples of this sort of cultural awareness are not going to be negated by the word "Union" put into references of the collective nations of Europe. Differing Forms
of Patriotic Thinking For more than 200 years, Americans have thought of themselves in the context of a unified or collective context of
being "American." Cultural heritage certainly plays a role in the sensibilities of individual Americans, however, the majority will define themselves as being Americans before they are Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Mexican-Americans, African-Americans
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