When we are born, we are born into a sex, and into a country. We have no choice of the gender, or nationality in which we will begin our life, and that is the only factor in our life that is not our choice. From that point on, we are responsible for everything that happens to us. Patriotism and Gender Roles. How these two ideas are both connected and separated, how they work to complement the other, and how they both define each other is a duality I would like to further with this work.
Patriotism is a loyalty to a certain place or idea.
They are Normandy, Candlestick Park, and Mississippi. A patriot, when asked to defend his or her country, will break into narrative, explaining that his country won this war, and that this president signed that peace treaty. My country right or wrong at its extreme. This will be very important in my explanation of gender-patriots. The United States is a project.