User:Argentino/Patria

Patria is NOT a nationalistic concept, it is something that we inherited from the ancient romans (in fact patria has the same meaning in Latin). This is hard to understand by a foreigner and even hardes to describe, just think the word "patriot" is "the one who..." It is very related with the concept of "nation", it is the land wich the patriot loves, and woludnt leave it. The etimology: its something like the word "pater" (father) + ia (land of) [like Alexandria, the land of Alexander(-); Gallia, the land of the Galli(Gauls)] So it means "the land of our fathers" (it is not the motherland, in fact, the motherland in spanish, or at least in Argentina, [madrepartia, (mother)+(patria=land, now)] is the way peole with an "above average" level of culture reffer to Spain). Being the "land of our (their) fathers" we (they) can not tolerate it to be damaged, attacked, dishonored by anyone and make sure it has the right place (EQUAL to the other nations, if it is under, they work hard to lift her to the right place) A patriot does not want his LAND/NATION to be above all others, because he wouldn't be a partiot, he would be a nationalistic fighter Argentino 16:51, 22 April 2006 (UTC)