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The patriotism (of Latin Lord's Prayer , father) is a Sentiment of membership of a Pays, which reinforces the Unité according to Valeur S communes.

It is a state of heart /d ' Esprit which pushes somebody to feel Amour and pride and to defend the Intérêt S of its country.

It should not be confused with the Chauvinisme, which is its even aggressive excessive demonstration, and it must be distinguished from the Nationalisme, which is a political Idéologie.

The expression Economic patriotism is sometimes employed, in France, since launching in 2003 by the Prime Minister of a public Politique of economic Intelligence. It rests on the concept of economic self-defense , translated the fact of defending the Rough National product French; the " patriotism économique" is a behavior of the consumers, companies and public authorities which, in a context of universalization of the economy, seek to support the goods and services produced in their country. One of its recent demonstrations is financial protectionism vis-a-vis foreign multinationals wanting to acquire companies considered as " stratégiques" for the economy of the country. The expression appeared in 2003 in the " parliamentary report; Economic intelligence, competitiveness, cohesion sociale" of the deputy (French!) author of the economic report/ratio Intelligence, competitiveness and social cohesion, Bernard Carayon.

In the army, patriotism is the moral direction being able to push a Soldat to defend the interests of its country, rather than to yield to the attacks of the enemy.

Historical examples

  • the Physiocrate S considered that the fatherland and the inheritance are joined and that, rejecting the tradesmen and the financial ones, only of the landowners have a fatherland and that the State should be controlled by them only.

  • In Europe: during the Second world war, a great patriotic dash was born through the countries invaded by the Germans, more by love of their country, that by hatred of the enemy.

At other times, and as regards specific to France, one saw:

At the beginning of the French revolution, patriotic companies were constituted, like the patriotic Société of 1789, rather moderate, as well as the patriotic Société of Luxembourg. This last company is regarded by François Perrault as being one of the most radical groups of the French revolution.

The historians consider sometimes that, in France, the nation was born with the Bataille from Bouvines (1214).

It is difficult to identify patriotism with the nation today, because of the size of the geopolitical units.

In the United States

the USA Patriot Act was voted by the American Congrès on October 26th 2001, following the Attentats of September 11th. Although " PATRIOT" that is to say an acronym, it acts well of a law aiming at defending the interests of the United States. This law gives all the capacities to the American legislator to reach all the oral or electronic communications being able to have a bond with the interests of the the United States, in the broad sense of the term.

The Fournisseurs of access to Internet were invited by FBI to install its monitoring system of the emails, Carnivore, famous DSC 1000.

Quotations

  • The poor one defends its fatherland and the rich person sells it. Charles Péguy

  • Patriotism, it is to like its country. Nationalism, it is to hate that of the others. Charles de Gaulle.

  • Patriotism it is the love as of his, nationalism it is the hatred of the others. Romain Gary

  • It is not known well that one loves a being that as from the moment when it is felt that one fears to lose it. And there is alarm at the origin of all the movements of patriotism. Jacques Bainville, France (September 4th, 1913)

  • With that which does not have anything, the fatherland is its only good. Jean Jaurès

  • If one cut off from the patriotism of the majority of the men the hatred and the contempt of the other nations, it would remain little of things. Duke of Lévis

  • The Fatherland is an association on the same ground of alive with deaths and those which will be born. Joseph de Maistre

  • Patriotism is the most powerful manifestation of the heart of a race. It represents a collective instinct of self-preservation which, in the event of national danger, immediately replaces the instinct of self-preservation individual. Gustave the Good, doctor and sociologist French

  • Patriotism is not limited to the love of the native ground. It includes/understands the memory and the religion of the past. Charles Maurras, the lace of the rampart.

  • Patriotism is the virtue of the rough ones. Oscar Wilde

  • In the famous dictionary of Doctor Johnson, patriotism is defined like the last recourse of the rabble. With all the respect due to an enlightened but lower lexicographer I allow myself to suggest humbly than it is the first. Ambrose Bierce, Dictionary of the Devil .

  • The workers do not have a fatherland. Karl Marx

  • To be patriotic, it is to believe that your country rightly because you were born there. George Bernard Shaw

  • Patriotism, it is the love for its Fatherland, for its country, which each human being should have, especially French. Live France! Cecile Radenac

  • Any Man who is not patriotic, is not worthy to have a Fatherland. Alix Aureau

  • One cannot conceive decently that it is possible to like its Fatherland without respecting its language. Committee of Protection of the French language

See too

External bond

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