Issue 16 - How should we define patriotism?

The theme of this issue stems from several seemingly unrelated events.

On August 10, a woman was taken away by the police on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" while wearing a kimono for filming on Huaihai Street in Suzhou City. Later, in the video released by the woman, you can clearly hear the police saying, "Are you Chinese? I will never mind you if you wear Hanfu." The implication is that as a Chinese, you should not wear a kimono.

Controversy arose since then. For example, some people think that the woman's provocation of controversy before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War on August 15 was deliberate; some people point out that Huaihai Street is a well-known Japanese-style street in Suzhou, and it is not the woman's turn to talk about "Jingri".

After the Beijing Youth Daily found the girl and had a conversation, she responded in the interview, "You can also be patriotic in a kimono." However, the article has since been removed.

The actions of the police are undoubtedly related to the accusations against the "Jingri" group in recent years, and the prevalence of "hatred" sentiment. At the same time, some "good people" discovered an interesting thing: wearing a kimono is a "fine day", so does a patriotic blogger who sells Japanese goods count as a "fine day"?

A blogger accused the six million-following big V of promoting Okamoto condoms on Weibo — a common occurrence. However, because these six big Vs are usually called "patriotic bloggers", and there are many strong nationalist sentiments in the fan community, they pride themselves on being patriotic and are keen to accuse "hate the country". "question". These six people are also dubbed "Okamoto six gentlemen".

Not only these six people "overturned", but also the well-known blogger Sima Nan. Known as an "anti-American fighter", this person has accumulated more than 30 million followers on Chinese social media, but recently it was revealed that he was buying a house in the United States, and he was subsequently banned from the entire network due to suspicion of the storm caused by the incident.

In fact, the accusation of Sima Nan's "anti-American is work, and going to the United States is life" has appeared more than once before, but this time it finally broke out.

An almost household phrase on the Internet is "Patriotism is the last refuge of hooligans", but it is hard to deny that patriotism is actually an instinct most of the time. Except for a few speculators, most are unquestioned patriots.

The question is, how do we define patriotism? The most basic question is, are you patriotic?

If love, what reasons do you think the love is based on? In other words, in your eyes, what kind of country do you love? Patriotism, is there a bottom line?

If not, what is the reason? How do you define what is patriotism? How do you define yourself?

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