[PODCAST] Love of Country: Is today's generation less patriotic?

In this episode of Rappler's Love of Country podcast, award-winning writer and activist Butch Dalisay talks about patriotism and the digital age. ArawNgKalayaan

Why do many millennials seem unperturbed by the violence in our midst?sits down with award-winning writer, longtime UP professor, and activist Jose “Butch” Dalisay Jr to talk about how patriotism has evolved through time.He says: “Patriotism should be a more critical kind of nationalism.

Something that’s more aware of what it is exactly that you are loving. There is a lot not to love in this country…. The only way I can reconcile that is to say, the country that I truly love and could die for is that ideal Philippines that we are working to build, a Philippines with a society that is just and prosperous and humane.”

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