Citizenship & Patriotism

What is citizenship?

• Having pride in one's country

• An individual’s or group’s relation to the state

• An individual's ability to support their state

• Feeling apart of your country

What is therefore the state's obligations to their citizens who support them?

• To be good government bosses

• To give citizens everything they deserve

• To grand individuals more individual freedom and equality

• To provide and protect the rights to those individuals or the members of that group

What is a benefit of being a citizen of a country?

• Benefits like your country will always take care of you

• Being apart of a wider community

• Benefits like education and health care

• Your state loves you

What is a negative attribute of citizenship?

• It can lead to discrimination if it's based on ethnic identity

• It can cause equality between people

• It can cause too much pride in one's country

• There are no negative attributes

What is patriotism?

• Having pride in your people

• Having pride in one’s state.

• Hating your country

• None of the above

Patriotism is the same as nationalism

• True

• False

Why do Palestinians not have patriotism, but they do have national identity?

• Because they hate their country

• Because they are the same thing

• Because they do not have a strong national identity

• Because they do have a state (country) of their own to have pride in

States that are weak struggle to instill patriotism in their citizens

• True

• False

What is a weakness of a state having citizens who have little to no patriotic feelings?

• The state won't be loyal to their citizens

• The citizens won't support their state in times of crisis

• The citizen will over support their country to the detriment of other people

• Creates too much pride in people

Ethnic identity and patriotism are tightly linked

• True

• False

• Kinda