Does It Means To Be Required To Be Considered A Patriot?

Ask an Individual what the word “Patriotism” means and the individual might define the term as someone being loyal. Yes, that is the correct. Now ask them what and individual has to be loyal to, to be considered a patriot. I can almost guarantee that at least one out of ten questioned individuals will bring up a war or something related to a war. While an individual fighting for our free country can be considered a patriot, we must be aware that they are not the only patriots.
The term “Patriot” was first coined in the ancient Roman republic, but was soon amended to “Patriotism” in the eighteenth-century. The term was used to indicated the loyalty that one individual had for a certain item, place, person, or object. According to the article “Patriotism” by Andrew Vincent, the term can be defined “to participate in relations of, for example, friendship, community, nationhood, citizenship, or marriage implies normative conventions” (29). For example, if two lovers are loyal to each other in a relationship or even a marriage, they can be considered patriots to each other. The reader of this essay may be a patriot if they are loyal to the organization to which they participate in. In a more modern
In Barack Obama’s case, he is a patriot to our nation. Little do we know that he is also a patriot to his wife and to his children as a husband and a father. His followers can be patriots to him by giving him support and advice when it is needed. Yes he works for the government, but he is not a patriot because of that. He’s a patriot because of his loyalty to his family and to the country of the United States of America. According to the webpage www.Thesaurus.com, synonyms for the word “patriotism” are: “bond, devotedness, devotion,duty,honesty,honor,integrity,inviolability,obedience,patriotism,probity,reliability.support,trueheartedness,trustworthiness,truthfulness” which describe the characteristics that are loyal to something else