Why people love America ?

Why do people love America? Its an interesting, multi faceted question. Presumably, the reason anyone 'loves' the country they choose to live in is because they embrace and feel at home with the composite elements of its culture. Its political system, its social mores and customs, its indiginous world view, all of the myriad and complex elements which combine to weave the matrix of what we call 'Culture.' Of course, the caveat implicit in a country with a free floating, non static economy such as ours is that it must by design go through cycles of feast and famine. Yet an important and notable facet of the American ethos seems to be its tenacity in times of famine, coupled with enough inner consistancy of vision to be able to continually recreate and restabalise itself. Indeed, the history of America is one of volatile and tempestuous social changes and waves of upheaval, compacted into a dramatically short period of Historical time. A Revolution, a Civil War, two major World Wars and multiple post war social crises have brought Americans to a modern day climate in which traditional values seem less defined and substantive than before. Yet these watershed periods have arisen many times in this country’s past, and will arise again in the future. And for its own part, the American national character seems to welcome seed change as opportunity for self evaluation and positive redefinition. After all America is, and was from its inception a self defined 'social experiment.' The exiles who chose to separate themselves from their countries of birth to participate in her newly founded vision did so out of a commitment to the future, rather than accepting the inequitable status quo of the past. In times of lesser certainty it is important to reflect upon and learn from their spirit of resolve, and of positive resolution, in order to forge an America worthy of the love of our own children.