TheCunningStunt

Let me put it another way, I was born in Manchester.

I had no choice, but I'm damn proud of this city and I won't ever have a bad word spoken of it, yet I didn't earn the right to live here, I was born here through no choice of my own.

I don't know why you think you can't be proud of the things you didn't choose or earn, like the place you were born or your sexuality or whatever else.

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RVCA

That's a good example, because it's exactly like sexuality. You had no influence on where you were born. You could have been born in New York, you could have been born in Beirut, or you could have been born in Manchester. In any case, you would have been born.

That being said, why be proud of the city you were born in? What are your reasons? You didn't contribute to its "greatness" in any way. You didn't found it, help construct it, influence it, or have anything to do with it at all. (Aside from simply existing in it, of course.) Same with having pride in being English. Or any kind of nationalism at all. George Washington had plenty of reasons to be prideful in being American, but I certainly don't. I could be grateful that I was born here, sure, but that is not pride.

Because you have no REASON to be proud.