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**tgs** · 04-12-2006, 08:23 AM

In my opinion Patriotism is
Not bringing down another country but bringing your country up.
In other words its not raising slogans against Pakistan
but
its not spitting on the roads,
its not throwing a banana peel on the road,
its paying taxes,
its not bribing the traffic constable when you ran a red light,
its standing in attention when Jana Gana Mana is played,
its not fighting for some obscure peice of land in Hoganikkal.
Its all these small small things.

very true. but sometimes it's really hard to do the small things like these. for eg, it is almost standard procedure to give bribes in certain offices. they even have a certain fixed rate for work to be done in a certain time. it's like tailors who have normal service, express service and urgent service for stitching the same blouse. but with tailors, it is their official fee, with these officers, they make it as close to official sth that is illegal can be. so how do you expect that pple can go around this?

04-12-2006, 08:23 AM	#19
tgs Join Date Mar 2007 Age 48 Posts 5,125 Senior Member	In my opinion Patriotism is Not bringing down another country but bringing your country up. In other words its not raising slogans against Pakistan but its not spitting on the roads, its not throwing a banana peel on the road, its paying taxes, its not bribing the traffic constable when you ran a red light, its standing in attention when Jana Gana Mana is played, its not fighting for some obscure peice of land in Hoganikkal. Its all these small small things. very true. but sometimes it's really hard to do the small things like these. for eg, it is almost standard procedure to give bribes in certain offices. they even have a certain fixed rate for work to be done in a certain time. it's like tailors who have normal service, express service and urgent service for stitching the same blouse. but with tailors, it is their official fee, with these officers, they make it as close to official sth that is illegal can be. so how do you expect that pple can go around this?
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