With the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution the local research agency conducted a poll on Czech pride. The results are quite uplifting:
- 78% of Czechs are proud of their nationality
- 17% of Czechs are not too proud of their nationality
- 5% of Czechs are not proud of their nationality at all
(Total of 1,270 voters)
More such prideful Czechs can be found among the student population and among the elders. The least prideful Czechs are among the those people who belong to the communist party (KSCM) and among those who did not vote and do not associate themselves with any kind of political party at all.
The STEM research agency have been conducting the same poll ever since the 1990’s.
CZ: Pri prilezitosti 20ti leteho vyroci sametove revoluce se pruzkumni agentura STEM zeptala 1 270 Cechu, jestli jsou hrdi na to, ze jsou Cesi. Vysledy jsou velmi optimisticke:
- 78% dotazanych tuto hrdost pocituje
- 17% spise na sve obcanstvi hrdi nejsou
- 5% na sve obcanstvi hrdi nejsou vubec
Nejvice pysnych Cechu je mezi studenty a take mezi starsimi obcany. Nejmene patriotu je na druhe strane mezi priznivci KSCM a take mezi temi obcany, kteri by zadnou stranu nevolili.
Agentura STEM provadi ten samy pruzkum jiz od konce 90. let.
Source: http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/stem-cesi-jsou-na-sve-obcanstvi-hrdi/407603
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I am NOT proud of my nationality.
It has been taken away from me.
I dont think your nationality can be taken away from you…I am very proud of being Czech…
Andrea, I am very proud of my national origin, which is not the same as nationality 😉
Hi Vlastimil, I don’t think your nationality can be taken away either, it’s the citizenship that was taken away from you. Or are we playing on words here??? ;))
Either way, pro me jsi Cech jak poleno, at je to na papire nebo ne :))))
PS: I just wanted to say that it is probably easier to be proud of one’s Czechness from across the ocean. I know I tend to put on my ‘pink glasses’ where everything in Czech is wonderful…but if I were to live there I would be complaining about the country left and right…and I would fit right in with everyone else :)))
Every Czech I met was proud of their nationality. I met a few Czechs though who defined themselves more broadly, such as Europeans or members of the human race. I thought they were the vanguard of the new globalism.
Tanja, what is wrong about complaining about the country if you live there? It just means you care and things aren’t meeting your expectations. It gets scary when people no longer have expectations – like under communism.
I would love to hear Vlastimil’s story because I can’t figure it out from his comments.
I agree that it is absolutely OK to complain about the country you live in, it means you care! No country is perfect. Ignorance would be the scary thing, not complaining…
Vlastimil, I still think that nationality is the same as national origin, it depends on which country you were born, which stays with you and nobody can take it away from you. Citizenship is different, of course. With nationality, you might feel like you belong to a different nationality than the one you were born into but in reality, you just can’t change where you were born…
nationality = membership in a particular nation (according to Webster).
citizen = a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it.
Since a Czech nation is the same as a Czech state (Czech republic is a national state) and me being stripped of the Czech citizenship is the same as being excluded from the membership in the Czech nation…
Even as having been entitled to protection from Czech republic as its citizen, I have been taken away this protection because the lawlessness is what communists do (CR is still ruled by crooked “former” communists).
Despite of all that I am a proud Bohemian 🙂
Tanja, diky za pekna slova…Urcite jsem poleno jako Cech 🙂 🙂
Karen, I would say, me too, I am proud of being European.
It is quite a paradox, because I am definitely against European Union, which is a socialist conspiracy…
I would like to preserve a diverse Europe, where driving 1 hour would mean a great adventure of experience another country and a risk of being caught for smuggling …. This way, it is much more fun to be an European 🙂
A take jsem hrdy na Rumcajse, Spejbla, Hurvinka a Broucky 🙂
Moje dcera ma bankovni konto online a zrovna se potrebovala na neco podivat a nebyla u pocitace tak mi volala, jestli se nemuzu zalogovat do jejiho konta a neco zkontrolovat. Dal jsem tam “user id”, “password” a pak se me to ptalo nejakou “security question”…Chtelo to vedet, jake je jeji nejoblibenejsi misto na straveni dovolene…Tak jsem volal zpatky dceri, a ta mi rekla, ze tam musim vyplnit …”Prague”….a to me docela dojalo …nekecam
Vlastimil, can you tell us what has actually happened with your citizenship? Did the communists take it away? And how come it wasn’t given back to you?
Tanja, by obtaining US citizenship, I lost the Czech citizenship automatically as stated in Czech law. Everything happened according to the law, which has been designed by idiots.
Don’t misunderstand me, I still have many good friends in Czech Republic and I know, that the Czech nation has a bright future as soon as they stop thinking “small”…
Vlastimil, you probably know, that you can get your Czech citizenship back along with a Czech passport.Just in case you would be interested…
I don’t like to complain about the country I live in. If you don’t like where you live then go back where you came from. “In Rome do what Romans do” This does not mean that I agree with everything that is happening around me but I don’t believe complaining will solve anything but caring might. Because if you care you might also take some kind of action and that’s how you change things. Complaining is only talking and talk is cheap, show me.
I completely agree with you Marika 🙂
Marika, please, send me some info on getting my passport back..
Thanks.
Marika, I think you have a full right to complain about the country where you live as long as it does not offend the locals 😉
Instead of complaining I prefer to make suggestions 😉
And even better then mere suggestions it is better to go out and do simething useful for the community ….
Marikam in case you want to sen me the info on the re-getting the citizenship, my address is …vlas01 zavinac
yahoo.com ….
Vlastimile, Marika ma pravdu, pokud jsi ztratil ceske obcanstvi na zaklade toho, abys dostal americke (v komunismu), zakony se zmenily a nyni cesi muzou mit “DUAL” citizenship. Muj manzel emigroval jako maly kluk s rodici za komunismu, taky se museli zrict ceskeho, ale uz pred nekolika lety kdyz vysel ten zakon, zazadaly o ceske, a ted maji obe obcanstvi. Ja taky. Nase deti se narodili tady, ale taky jsme jim vyridili ceske obcanstvi, tak maji ceske i americke. Zavolej si na ceskou ambasadu, nevim, kde bylis, ale do Los Angeles ci kolem tveho bydliste, a oni Ti reknou podrobnosti a poslou patricne dokumenty na vyplneni, me vyridili i pas.
Vlastimil, not only was your Czech citizenship taken away, but when you took your US oath of citizenship, you yourself gave up your Czech citizenship. Remember this?
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen…”
You can’t get US citizenship without giving up your other citizenship. People can walk around pretending they have dual citizenship, but when push comes to shove, if there’s any trouble, they soon discover that they can’t be a citizen of the US and another country at the same time.