Name three things that You are most proud of in Your country/nation history.

Hey Maju

Where are You from?

Fundamentalist Islam, Khomeini and Ahmadinezhad

More seriously, architecture, art/culture and landscape.

1) Food

2) History/architecture

3) Rani Muckherjee

You have reason.

In fact for my money you could have included Indian women in general.

As for England

1) The legal system

2) The Parliamentary system

3) Stoicism. (Not the philosophical school, but the attitude)

Scotland:

... haggis? Kilts?

The Highlands, Edinburgh and Scottish people in general.

I forgot my adopted country.

1) Captain Vimes

2) Veterinari, the most efficient and least burdensome dictator ever

3) the amazing tolerance of Ankh-Morpork culture

Basque

I've heard that Basques are very nice people from. And I was told this by Spanish

Tolerant politics and the fact that half our country is beneath sea level though not underwater

You could say the same about Netherlands

1.For more than 3.000 years of historical contribution to humanity.

2.For the humanistic and ecumenical character of the Hellenic Civilization

3.For the complexity ,vastness and greatness of the Hellenic Language(Ancient-Medieval-Modern).

1) The Finnish people

2) History: fighting around 40-50 separate conflicts, in some form or other, against Russia, losing pretty much all of them and STILL STANDING!!

3) Strong democratic foundations

4) Ice Hockey world champions of 1995, Den glider in!

Please excuse the lack of explaination to my choices here but its 2:30 in the morning here...I will include links where I can.

In general the way in which Australian fighting man has conducted himself in battle over the nations short history. Always fight with pride, respect and honor and the fact our adversaries respect us for such qualities (the Turks and Vietnamese are a prime example of this). Examples of said traits:

The Battle of Long Tan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Tan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Tan

The Battle for Beersheba http://www.lighthorse.org.au/histbatt/beersheba.htm - http://www.lighthorse.org.au/histbatt/beersheba.htm

Well there are many other examples (Isurava, El Alamein, Gallipoli, Kapyong), you get the point.

There isn't anything else that I will put down as this is the reason I am a proud Australian, I'm not going to come up with any other reasons why its good to be Australian as they would just be fillers (I am happy being an Aussie don't get me wrong, but I don't have the national enthusiasm of some of AE's other members). We neither have the history nor the impact culturally to come up with anything else.

1. Cradle Of Civilizaton.
2. Inventing Chariots.
3. Flourishing Baghdad.

1) 5000 years of history

2) the great wall

3) architecture

4) food

5) had a lot of ancient inventions

Jackson's men only beat off the first attack. Before the British could launch another attack they heard the war had already been called off.

So it was a draw - time out, and no penalty shootouts

You forgot Don Bradman and Shane Warne.

Old culture

Korean Language

'Miracle of the Han River'=Rapid economic development from 1970's

1. Multiculturalism

2. Non-aggressive foreign policy

3. Social progressivism (the recent Conservative victory is only a temporary setback)

1)powerful capitalist economy

2)melting pot of the world cultures

3)stable government

4)powerful military

we got nothing to be proud. now is one of the most ashamed time for my country. we only hope we can built a new glorious history by ourselves. our refulgence is in the future, not now, let along the past. 

there are a lot of things to be proud in Turkish history

so i cant write just a few things

-creating of great empires

-estabilishing empires for hundreds of years, not like the mongols after a 100 year ruled disappearing

-War of independence

-Allways finding a way to survive or to win while the most think its impossible

-Having real lived hero's, not fiction-made hero's such as arthur or something

-Having of no fear but expert in spreading fear such as "mamma il turchi"

-NOT BEING CONQUERED FROM ON THE BEGIN OF OUR EXISTANCE OF THIS DAMN WORLD!!

1. Who do you think that was El Cid, Joan of Arc and the Black Prince???

2. LOOOOLLLLL!!! Hicsus, lybians, nubians, assirians, persians, greeks, romans, arabs, ottomans and finally english. Anybody you say?

..having given this a great deal of thought, more than i could handle!!......i still found it very hard to come up with any 'specifics'....

..my football team? Chelsea and the national squad?..our sense of pride? our general friendliness? our govermental structure?.......no, not these really...!!!!

...a more difficult exercise than i first imagined!!!.......there were so many 'pros and cons'....moreover, many of my initial thoughts could be debated forever...and being from England, i am very much aware that my country is quite easy to 'attack' and 'criticise'...but... 

..In no particular order, and i am still not sure...and bound to be controversial i think.....but here goes....

....Our history and heritage, in particular the last 1000 years, truly and educational period....i am proud of the positives we English have learnt from this time and the positives that have been exported round the globe...

...the extension of cultural and racial tolerance in the modern world after the above.....in my eyes, England is still many years ahead compared to some nations around the world....

...last but probably not least....the English language, a global phenomenon...the very basis of communication throughout much of the world...business, politics, learning etc...i am quite sure it will not always be like that, but for now, as it stands, i think this is an appropriate 'thing' to be proud of....

...well, i will now go and grab some sandbags and build my redoubt!!!!

I want to add somethings:-

1. Inventing Writing.
2. First Legal Code.
3. First Library&Museum.

1. Courage through history

2. Scientists - Nikola Tesla, Mihailo Pupin, Milutin Milankovic, Jovan Cvijic...

3. Sports - basketball (since 1995. 3 times euro champions(1995., 1997., 2001.) 2 times world champions (1998., 2002.), silver on Olimpics 1996.); current waterpolo world champions (and numerous other medals); volleyball - gold at 2000. Olimpics (and a few other medals I can't remember ) 

I beg your pardon?

First of all , Hii to ya'll

hmm let me think, what do I like about my country, i'd say fooood, our folk dances, flag, jokes, girlzz, language, architecture......

Afghanistan:
1) Patriotism
2) Passion for defending independence
3) Honor and Pashtunwali

France

1. Having the fairest, largest, most developed country in western Europe.

2. Being a world power now for nearly 1500 years since creation by Clovis.

3. THe culture, architecture, cuisine claim to be the most sophisticated in the world.

4. French great projects like the Eiffel tower, Louvre, versaille, Milau bridge, channel tunnel and lately the construction of a massive tunnel under the alps to link Lyon and Milan.

Everything except the the strikers and unionists that I despise.

From my Bulgarian side I would quote Nike's post. From my Russian side I need to say only one thing : winning the most epic and decisive war in human history and saving all the other peoples in the world from certain annihilation.

You forgot Lao-Tsu...

1- seperating from Britian and surviving

2- becoming the strongest nation when others thought we could not

3- the aid we give to other nations

Hmmm as the Pole

1. For having one of the first democratic systems in Europe, multicultural society with the policy of religious tollerance in times when in the rest of Europe people were being burned for their religion, and first in europe, second in the world written constitution,

2. for taking Moscow in 1610 and defeating Russians on the battlefield more times than did any other nation in history

3. for making whole eastern block and Warsaw Pact collapsed

1. Being what we are
2. Still being what we are
3. Hoping to keep on being what we are

When was your constitution adopted? It couldn't have been before 1918 and Bulgaria's constitution was adopted in 1879. The Polish constitution couldn't have been first in Europe. France had a constitution from the 18th century, if I'm not mistaken.

Hello everyone, I guess this is my first post. i was introduced to this site by a friend of mine. So far I like the look of it. Now as far as what I am proud of regarding my nation.

Contributions

History

Surviving this far into the future.

Polish constitution was first in Europe and second in the world. It was 3rd May 1791.

King of Poland, Stanislav August Poniatowski carried by the people, with constitution in his hand, just after Seym (parliament) enacted it:

For more details wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_3rd_may - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_3rd_may

Please forgive my ignorance.

Please forgive my ignorance.

Yuo are forgiven

1. Polish tollerance in XVI Constitution. Fact that although most of Polish were catholics most of members of polish parliament were prothestans.

2. Polish Winged Hussars - the best cavalry in the world history, well maybe second after Mongols.

3. Uprising of Warsaw 1944 and all the others uprisings.

 It sound strange to you, right?. But let me try to explain it to you.

 Almost all the Greeks say that they are proud for their country they actually mean that they are proud for their history.

 I really am not proud for my morden country. My country has only 180 years life and in those years only few thing happed that i can be proud of. For example, When we try to build a statement at the 19 century we try to estamblish it on democratical rules and goverment (although that it did happen) and later in the 20 century that we was the first country that defeat a force of axis (italy). But if you look at the last 60-50 years there is nothing that a greek can be proud of....... My country have made really great steps to come closer to Western countries and it have succed but it really need more work in the aspect of the rellationship between the goverment, laws and cittizens.

 Well i really haven't explain it well right?. It is really hard to me to express feeling that i have to look it more deeper .

1. nearly 3,000 yrs of Arts of War (by Sun Zi). A great book of war art

2.the seed of oriental civilisation. the Chinese character system is widely using by east and southeast countries. Although some asian may not like my country that much, they still cannt avoid the culture impacts on them.

3. We won the Hun and compelled them to Europe.

A biggest shame of China is we don't have humanistic civilisation like Greece, but a superior empire with restricted contralised monarchism, even now.

There is nothing to forgive. Im not an expert of Bulgarian history but im learning it here from you guys.

Hmm I got a few here:

A/ USA:

1. Democracy and Freedom (well I know there is Bush now)

2. Only Super power in the world (now days China is closing)

3. Succesfull at sports

B/ Canada:

1. Peaceful

2. Freedom

3. HOCKEY

C/ Turkey:

1. Wrestling and  weight lifting.

2. Most advanced Middle Eastern (except Israel) and Muslim Country.

3. Ancient ruins all across the country.

D/ Circassia:

1. Indigenous People (Native peoples secret)

2. Peaceful

3. Honor above all attitude. 

We had an empire controling 3 continent. we were always had indipendence. We were the only free muslim country in first years of 20 century. And we are the first secular muslim country.

I don´t know why but these polls always seem very nationalistic . So, I´ll include 3 things I´m not proud of:

There was just recently a thread dedicated to "you're countries sins"€ which discussed that very subject.

Originally posted by Ikki Originally posted by erkut We had an empire controling 3 continent. we were always had indipendence. We were the only free muslim country in first years of 20 century... Persia was not muslim?

yea, Iran (Persia) was also never colonised. infact, we kicked russia, portugal, and britain out many times.

and Iran (Persia) also became secular in the 1920's, all the way up to 1979.

Iran:

1. 7000 years of history and still going strong.

2. the many cultural, scientific, and political contributions to human history.

3. always managing to stay independent, and when conquered, always managing to resurect itself. (and the islamic occupation will end one day also!)

USA:

1. being the greatest democracy on the planet.

2. being the richest and strongest on the planet.

3. the many many many many contributions it has made to human society and history.

Diamond Business.

1.We suck

2.We really suck

3.We suck to high heaven

Originally posted by Jay. Originally posted by Maljkovic Originally posted by majkes1 Name three things that You are most proud of in Your country/nation history. 1.We suck 2.We really suck 3.We suck to high heaven    Really? When I visited Croatia, I liked it. Maybe it was because I visited Krajina! lol, kidding. Well, I visited Zagreb, also. I liked it, other than the fact that some of the Croatians kidnapped Serbian tourists and tourtured them.

So you were that moron that put up the picture of Draža Mihajloviæ expecting... what? An applause? If I'd put a picture of Paveliæ on the Belgrade main square, I'd expect a beating. You were lucky there was a cop near by or you'd of been in real trouble...

So there we are....Finally- a Croat not affraid to compare chetniks and ustashas.I've seen similar comparings at your national television...First of all: Ustasha’s were fascists,chetniks weren’t.

Chetniks were resistent fighters.A number of them joined Italian fascists after 1943. when the Allies switched to supporting partisans ( communists).Yes, they did commit crimes-most of them being against their (our) own people-communist  Serbs.In spite of that, they saved several hundreds of Anglo-American pilots, and their leader Draza Mihajlovic was awarded with the medal by Americans just after WWII, although he was already slained by Tito, and it was disapproved by some, since the communists ruled Yugoslavia.However, those american pilots saved by chetniks were insisting, and the american goverment finally granted it.Mihajlovic’s offsprings received a medal from american goverment in may 2005-it had to be semi-public, because the Croatians somehow felt offended -. However, since it is my freedom to write whatever i want, and I very well could be lying- it’s best to find some reliable sources:

 ’’Bosnia and Herzegovina, History of: Bosnia in the Yugoslav kingdom’’

The killing that took place in Bosnia between 1941 and 1945 was terrible in both scale and complexity. The Ustaša, the fascist movement that ruled Croatia during the war, exterminated most of Bosnia's 14,000 Jews and massacred Serbs on a large scale: more than 100,000 Serbs from Bosnia died in this way, roughly half in death camps.

’’Chetnik’’

Serbo-Croatian Cetnik member of a Serbian nationalist guerrilla force that formed during World War II to resist the Axis invaders and Croatian collaborators but that primarily fought a civil war against the Yugoslav communist guerrillas, the Partisans.

’’Resistance’’

In Yugoslavia the Serbian nationalist Chetniks under Dragoljub Mihailovic and the communist Partisans under Josip Broz Tito fought each other as well as the Germans,

’’Croatia,History of:World War II’’

once in power, the Ustaše began a ruthless and violent persecution of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and antifascist Croats. The Ustaše planned to eliminate Croatia's Serb minority partly by conversion to Catholicism, partly by expulsion, and partly by extermination. As many as 350,000 to 450,000 victims were killed in Ustaše massacres and in the notorious concentration camp at Jasenovac.

                                      C.W. Bracewell

’’Ustasa’’

To make their state more purely Croatian, the ustaše set about exterminating its Serb, Jewish, and Gypsy inhabitants with a brutality that shocked even the Germans and occasionally obliged the Italians to intervene.

        Copyright © 1994-2002 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc

But that was the incident you were talking about, wasn't it? I didn't know there were any other Serbian tourists in the neigbourhood at the time, sorry.

Socrates:

The cethniks commited crimes mostly against Croatian civilians, in WWII and 10 years ago. Thats why we found the later celebration of the medal awarding at Flat Mountain highly offensive, not the ceremony itself. Cethnik supporters are still claiming parts of Croatian teritory.

The only reason for the, IMO condeming, rise of support for the ustashe in Croatia is the same rise of support for cethniks in Serbia.

As for events of WWII, the ustasa were in my opinion agents of Mussoilini and traitors to their own people. Cethniks were a continuation of greaterserbian policy.   

I know that all Croats aren't ustashe.Chetniks commited crimes against Serbs(commies) and Bosniaks (as an act of vengence for what Hanchar division did as well as some acts of absurd violence).There is quite a bit of difference between chetniks and ustashas...the crimes r beyond comparing.

Anyway, i  reacted because u were indirectly comparing Mihajlovic and Pavelic which is beyond comparing-even according to ''western'' historical sources. Don't try to deminish what ustasha's did....And u accused this kid Jay - he's only 14 and he lives in Canada!

Only difference is there were no cethnik concentration camps and they had different political agendas until 1943. Everything else is the same.

And there is a comparison between Mihajlivic and Pavelic-Pavelic for the Serbs is the same as Mihajlovic is to the Croats. The difference is that to most Croats Pavelic is a traitor, and for most Serbs Mihajlovic is a hero. As for Jay, if he's gonna insult people, he'd better be ready to be insulted back.

Once again-I have given u the citations from Britannica...Beyond any comparing !!!And your hostilities towards Serbia began before the ustasha's-you commited crimes in WWI as well...and they were well investigated by swiss criminologist Archibald Rodolph Reiss, so there's plenty to read if u want to.However, the "equality'' of chetniks and ustashas is proven by this quotation:

''The crimes of the fascist Ustashe against the Serbs in the notorious camp of Jasenovac must be known - crimes that are the worst ones along with those committed against the Jews in the Holocaust''

                  Simon Wiesenthal

Serbs, Maljkovicu....not Croats.It's a well-known fact...Or maybe Wiesenthal is not good enough for u...Maybe Primorac or Tudjman have more authority on the subject...

Btw, in the entrance in Jasenovac it says 59000 people got killed there-when the true number is at least 350.000!!!Every reliable source says so.

Actually, Fernão de Magalhães was portuguese, though he was at the service of the Spanish Crown.

I thought you had more sense then this... I was wrong. You're just another one of Seselj's folowers.

Why?Because I'm quoting reliable historical sources and one of the most famous Nazi-hunters?

And I don't vote...There isn't a single political partie that interests me...They r all a bunch of thieves wrapped in nationalistic/democratic cover.

Because you haven't even read what I wrote. Or maybe you just didn't understand it? What I've been saying from the begining was that Croats are offended by glorification of Mihajlovic just as Serbs would be by glorification of Pavelic. For Croats, Mihajlovic is a mass murderer. 

Quote:

Slavko Kvaternik [the second in command to the Croatian WWII fuehrer, Dr Ante Pavelic] explained [on the day of formation of the WWII "Independent State of Croatia", on April 10, 1941] how pure Croatia should be built - by forcing one third of the Serbs to leave Croatia, one third to convert to Catholicism, and one third to be exterminated. Soon Ustasha bands initiated a bloody orgy of mass murder of Serbs unfortunate enough not to have converted or left Croatia on time. The enormity of such criminal behavior shocked even the conscience of German commanders...

First off I never said anything about ustasha or cethniks, so quit putting words in my mouth!