From Peace to Patriotism
After a blast of two days of awesome music and fun at the first ever IF Festival and then the Hoping for Peace Festival, the Ramblers head into another two-day blast of music and fun at the Canada Day Celebration, in Da-An Park, and then the American Fourth of July Celebration, at the American Club.
Celebrating patriotism is always dangerous because patriotism breeds that "us and them" feeling. However, with that cool peace feeling that the Ramblers got from last weekend, we can try to bring out the best of patriotism: a sense of pride in who you are, where you came from, and what drives your gears to make the world a better place.
It's all good fun...
2 comments:
Yeah, Canada day. National pride. Inclusive.
And Amcham Day. Pride that you're a rich nob that can afford the American Club and don't have to mix with the rest of the U.S. riffraff. Not what I'd call national pride, but there ya go -- that's rich Americans for ya, I suppose.
You fellas should make it a point to make sure you make no mention whatsoever about July 4, as it would be strange to mention something supposed to be so INclusive on a day on which the AmCham people are celebrating something so EXclusive.
Sometimes I'm truly ashamed to have been born American.
Until I remember: this private party has totally fuck-all to do with America, Independence Day, or anything like it. It's just a party for some rich snooty WASP jackoffs.
But you guys will still rock. Just a pity this American is being refused entry to celebrate Independence Day with you.
Many good, hard working Americans, most likely like yourself, were hoping for a more open venue to celebrate the National Day of the U.S., and that way, you and all Americans, as well as the world, could join in the fun, and the Ramblers were hoping for that too, but this year it didn't happen as such, and in the end, the Ramblers tried to spread the music best we could.
We wish all of y'all could have been there. Thanks for listening (and dancing).
Cheers,
Slim
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