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My Country Right or Left" is an essay published in 1940 by the English author George Orwell. In it Orwell seeks to reconcile his intense feeling of patriotism and his left-wing views. In it Orwell seeks to reconcile his intense feeling of patriotism and his left-wing views.
Americanism, also referred to as American patriotism, is a set of patriotic values which aim to create a collective American identity for the United States that can be defined as "an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning". [1]
The Sporting Spirit" is an essay by George Orwell published in the magazine Tribune on 14 December 1945, and later in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, a collection of Orwell's essays published in 1950. [1] [2] The essay was written on the heels of the 1945 tour of Great Britain by the Soviet football team FC Dynamo Moscow.
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Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
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Orwell described England as one of the most democratic nations of the time, but also stated that it lacked a true worldview and had replaced it with a level of fervent patriotism. He supported this argument with reference to the fact that English gentry and businessmen thought Fascism was a system that was compatible with the English economy.
Notes on Nationalism ' is an essay completed in May 1945 by George Orwell and published in the first issue of the British magazine Polemic in October 1945. [1] Political theorist Gregory Claeys has described it as a key source for understanding Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four .