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**GlarlraTpople** · 11-22-2007, 08:40 PM

I was pulled here by New York and I am extremely proud of where i come from and frequently boast my British heritage with pride.

I certainly wouldn't, (quote), "frequently boast my British heritage with pride"!
Britain has slaughtered, ravished, raped & pilloried around the world, using & abusing many nations and peoples - it built its empire on violence and greed and left in its wake a mess of humanity that still to this day is paying the price of British aggression.

Boswell said that Samuel Johnson made his famous pronouncement that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel on the evening of April 7, 1775. He doesn't provide any context for how the remark arose, so no-one really knows for sure what was on Johnson's mind at the time.

However, Boswell assures us that Johnson was not indicting patriotism in general, only false patriotism.

As a salty old sea-dog I'm always wary of "patriotism", I've seen too much of it being used for the wrong reasons.

11-22-2007, 08:40 PM	#4
GlarlraTpople Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 563 Senior Member	I was pulled here by New York and I am extremely proud of where i come from and frequently boast my British heritage with pride. I certainly wouldn't, (quote), "frequently boast my British heritage with pride"! Britain has slaughtered, ravished, raped & pilloried around the world, using & abusing many nations and peoples - it built its empire on violence and greed and left in its wake a mess of humanity that still to this day is paying the price of British aggression. Boswell said that Samuel Johnson made his famous pronouncement that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel on the evening of April 7, 1775. He doesn't provide any context for how the remark arose, so no-one really knows for sure what was on Johnson's mind at the time. However, Boswell assures us that Johnson was not indicting patriotism in general, only false patriotism. As a salty old sea-dog I'm always wary of "patriotism", I've seen too much of it being used for the wrong reasons.
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