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Absentee agriculture also bolsters national pride – and pride in traditional diets – by specializing in vegetables specific to the region.
In more prosperous countries, African elites are motivated by a complex interplay of national pride, dietary concerns, and the pursuit of profit.
If their product sells well, they can take pride in having produced something that is sought after around the world.
Those values are embodied partly in Europe’s well-developed welfare states, which are an important component of Europeans’ collective identity and a principal point of pride.
In both countries, at different times, educated people who pride themselves on being democrats have ended up applauding military coups against elected governments.
But, as someone who led a peaceful revolution, I hope that pride is tempered by pragmatism, because a change of regime is only the first step in establishing a democracy backed by the rule of law.
The EU, in this narrative, is merely the latest in a long line of predatory and unscrupulous foreign powers that have assaulted Serbian identity and pride.
And British pride in standing alone against Nazi Germany, and the self-aggrandizing notion of being America’s special partner, has prevented the United Kingdom from playing to its full strength as a major power inside the EU.
He stirred up national pride and promised rural Thais that their country would rise to greatness following the devastating 1997 economic crisis.
And their deep pride in Britain’s liberal-democratic tradition made them suspicious of meddling Brussels bureaucrats.
With that, their narrative morphed into one of national pride.
Now, the Greek electorate is rejecting the creditors’ demands in the name of national pride, democracy, and sovereignty; the creditors are angry not only at their attitude, but also at their government’s unreliability.
The answer, I believe, is overwhelmingly national pride – its peoples’ desire to demonstrate that Iran is a power to be reckoned with, a country that has impressive technical prowess, and that there are limits to its willingness to suffer international humiliation.
Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons – with its boost to national pride and promise of regional preeminence – has played a critical unifying role, as well as a political and military one.
It was also a matter of national pride.
But, in the process of laying claim to Iran’s oil, subverting its democracy, and jeopardizing its national security, the US and Britain committed a much graver sin: the wounding of Iranians’ national pride.
Putin’s popularity rests on maintaining national pride and prosperity.
Meanwhile, among emerging economies, pride has sometimes manifested itself as conceit, tinged, after decades of Western arrogance, with schadenfreude.
Second, Americans often pride themselves on taking a transactional approach to the world.
Citizens feel close to their municipal governments and proud of their cities, but their pride in their identity does not have the damaging qualities of nationalism.
Given the condition of Russia’s military-industrial complex, considerations of national pride, geopolitical influence, and entrepreneurial profits will likely sustain Russian interest in selling weapons to almost any client no matter how distasteful to Western governments.
While taking silent pride in the path we have walked as a peace-loving nation for as long as 70 years, we remain determined never to deviate from this steadfast course.
More than national pride and economics are wounded by the Schengen restrictions.
Jihadism, with its absolute certainty and grand mission, offers a sense of purpose, pride, and identity – not to mention adventure – and an outlet for their anger against the “home” that has denied them those things.
Overcoming Africa’s North-South DivideThe late President Mobutu Sese Seko of former Zaire once declared that the North African countries, which pride themselves on their Arabic descent, should be excluded from the then Organization of African Unity.
From the perspective of the Western-minded Turks, the pride of European membership is perhaps less important than the pain of rejection.
On the contrary, as in postwar Germany, it is a matter of pride that one is working hard through a difficult situation that will later be remembered as a historic transition.
Since then, a nostalgic pride in the past has substituted for bold new pursuits in the present.
Economic prosperity, the sense of solidarity, and the pride of being a European are not enough, according to Juncker.
It is a sign of identity, culture, and national pride.
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