"really I don't think you are a bad person, but young and full of nationisltic pride"
damn it you stupid fella i've heard this one one time too many. i don't have the slightest nationalistic pride but when you repeatedly use the history of my country to insult me, i'm not going to take this. also i'm not going to take any lies about the history of my country, neither from you, nor from neo-nazis, nor from anybody else. and as i probably know much more about my country than you do, i have a right to point our your wrongful statements.
YOU are the one with nationalistic pride, this "pride" often tends to be "racism" or "nationalism", by the way. and i'm not allowing somebody like you who loves his country, loves to serve his country, defends all your country does and did - to call me "full of nationisltic pride".
i haven't joined the army because i don't want to fight for the idiots that are around me. at the moment, about 53% of our population are stupid enough to vote for our Christian Democatic Union party that doesn't have the slightest idea of how to solve our economical problems. about 30% (which is too much already) is against new elections. more than 50% are AGAINST the spelling reform that will make our language much easier and will eradicate logical and linguistical problems. 26% of my people read a daily tabloid that is filled with nothing but "sensational" lies and porn and believe they are "well informed" about the political situation of our country. this paper is called the "Bild Zeitung", it's news are like "We might all die in 2010!" "NASA attacks asteroid - the asteroid fires a poisonous gas cloud at earth" (referring to the recent 'deep impact' mission) and many more ridiculous headlines. disturbing enough, 9% of my people vote for the NPD, a right wing (nazi) party with the ideological background of the NSDAP and 20% of the people in east germany vote for the PDS, the descendant of the SED party that suppressed the people in communist east germany until 1989 - immediately after the berlin wall was destroyed, they voted for their own recent oppressors.
this is my country. does this sound like i'm proud of it? does this sound as if i liked my country? loved my country? my country is the place where i was born and it is full of idiots - like every country in the world. it is a place to be and it certainly is a pretty safe place to live in - hardly any "real" poverty and not a very high crime rate. it's okay, that's all. i don't like most of our german music, i don't like geman food, german customs, ... . i don't drive a german car, the music i listen to is 99% english music, i don't like most german movies, i like indiana jones although he is fighting germans and if our political situation would change or if i have the impression that i could lead a better life somewhere else, i'd simply leave.
but until this day, i am here. and you don't have the right to put my country down, to tell lies about it. this applies to all the countries in the world but as i am best informed about my own one (although i've seen many countries and i'm well informed), i'll care for what you say about germany. if you feel like insulting france, we have enough watchful french users that can get you back to the facts. this would have nothing to do with national pride, either. lies are lies and i'm not going to let you insult my country or myself just because you can't stand germany and like to float in your own glorious past.
it is truth that i'm after, not pride. pride is your branch.
EDIT: hmm sometimes i like chocolate milk. but a bad chocolate milk might be a war crime.