Majority of Young Americans Are Not Proud of Their Country

The number is down compared to 2003. It seems that Americans lost faith for their country after 2008, French news website Atlantico reported.

The unsuccessful outcomes of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were turning points in public opinions. More and more Armenians started to questions the legitimacy of their government. A similar trend took place during the 1960s when Americans weren't particularly proud of their government's actions in Vietnam, Atlantico said.

When Barack Obama became the president in 2008, he aimed to make Americans proud, by making people of all ethnicities and cultures live together in peace. In his mind, Obama wanted to steer Americans clear from being proud of US international campaigns and instead to have pride in US domestic policies, characterized by fairness, equality and multiculturalism.

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The first Black president wanted to show minorities that the United States was also their country, something everyone, regardless of ethnicity and culture, should be proud of.

However, over time this sense of unity vanished. People realized that American society didn't change overnight, simply because an African-American was elected as the president of the United States. Racism and inequality are still strongly rooted in the American society.

There was Ferguson, Charleston and many other cases when Black Americans were killed for no particular reason, but for the color of their skin.