Quote Originally Posted by Rick
From my encounters with the French in the U.S., it seems that it's perfectly normal in France to say, "France is the best country in the world. Let me tell you why..." Openly displaying national pride in an emotional way seems to be the norm. If you did this in the U.S., people would probably say you look retarded.
We are not patriotic so much in France ; at least if you actually do what you said, you can possibly pass as a racist. In France, we're not patriotic, we're pretty much over-relativitic hippies. According to Beck's Spiral Dynamics, that's normal and an effect of the GREEN vMeme. Having pride for his country is more much BLUE or ORANGE-ish.

In France, there is a candidate for presidency which has the name of Le Pen (7-ENFj ?) ; he is the nationalist-patriotic french political leader. Others candidates considered nationalist-patriotic are De Villiers (4-INFj ?), Sarkozy (8-ISTj ?), Dupont-Aignan (not sure of type) and Mégret (not sure of type). If in France, especially urban public places, you actually claim you are on the side of such politicians, in the best case some people can see you weirdly, and in the worst case some people can beat your face in. But why ? because in France, there's a meme which stipulates that "patriotism = racism". In France, if you display emotional patriotic pride, as you said, you can actually be seen as retarded, as in USA.