I get what you say, but you know, love IS a 2 way street.
It has to be. Even with first born babies it is:
- They "love" their mommy because they shared a womb for 9 months, so the baby already knows and has felt the love of the mommy. The daddy however, babies usually take far longer to develop an attachment to them because they didn't share such personal physical bond during the pregnancy (the daddy is usually perceived like almost a stranger).
- Many mommies don't automatically love their babies, they grow into it and develop the attachment over time.
And don't get me started on how many parents never love their own kids to begin with or how many abandoned kids hate their biological parents more than anything in this world.
So for anyone to be able to say "I love X or Y" they are either lying, confusing love with something else, or felt X or Y love them back at some point (or at least give them something they like, like how addicts "love" their drugs).
So your question of "You don't have unconditional love for your country?" is wrong.
I mean, would you ask that to a German Jew about to be marched into a gas chamber (since the Nazis were widely popular the country was indeed in bed with them)? Or to a gay man in Saudi Arabia about to be executed for apostasy (which would be approved by over 90% of the population)?
No? I didn't think so.
Your country has to love you (at some point) if it expects you to love it back.
That's why all those blacks protesting the Vietnam War and especially Ali when he said "No Vietcong ever called me the N word" had a rock solid point refusing to be shamed by the "don't you love your country?" BS argument.
Andre simply is able to love America because it HAS loved him back, and a lot:
- He lives in a McMansion
- He has a cushy 6 figure white collar job
- He has an MD wife
- He has 4 great kids
- He's got his parents enjoying a union pension-funded retirement
Oh yeah, he's had it pretty good.
No wonder he can love America despite the occasional racist incident here and there (which clearly hasn't been severe enough to set him back or block his way to upper class livelihood).
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