Why not emigrate?

[Justin Schwartz]

>
>>She's [Arundhati Roy's] what I call a patriot, or anyway someone who loves 
>>her country. No doubt another blinkered bourgeois ideologue . . . . jks
>
>The thing is, American exceptionalism doesn't allow anyone to be a patriot 
>of her own country; it insists that not just Americans but everyone else 
>revere America as "the greatest nation" and prefer it to her own.  
>Regardless that Arundhati Roy is an Indian, not an American, Ian Buruma 
>excoriates her for her criticism of US imperialism: Ian Buruma, "The 
>Anti-American,"

So, are you telling me that I can't allow Roy to be an Indian patriot 
because I care about _my_ country in something like the way she cares about 
hers? Why do I have to sign up with Ian Buruma or George W. Bush if I feel 
strongly about this country?

jks

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