I just don't see a point in taking pride in something you had no part in becoming. It's like saying you're proud to be a redhead, or a male, or six-fingered. None of these are within your power, so why pat yourself on the back for it?

I am content and grateful to have been born in America, but I don't hold our nation as something to be prideful of.

And by nation, I use the definition of "a relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government."

Sure, our government works, and it probably is the best in the world, but it's not without its own lot of huge, gaping problems.