What Would Make a Better National Anthem? (user search)

	Welcome, Guest. Please login or register. Did you miss your activation email? June 02, 2024, 06:59:11 AM

News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

Talk Elections

General Politics

U.S. General Discussion (Moderators: The Dowager Mod, Chancellor Tanterterg)

What Would Make a Better National Anthem? (search mode)

Pages: [1]

Poll

Question:

#1 America the Beautiful		13 (19.4%)
#2 Hail Columbia		3 (4.5%)
#3 My Country Tis of Thee		2 (3%)
#4 This is my Country		0 (0%)
#5 Battle Hymm of the Republic		18 (26.9%)
#6 This Land is Your Land		9 (13.4%)
#7 Something Else		6 (9%)
#8 Just Keep Star Spangled Banner		16 (23.9%)

Show Pie Chart
Partisan results

Total Voters: 67

Author

Topic: What Would Make a Better National Anthem? (Read 2240 times)

🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸
shua
Atlas Star

Posts: 25,752

Political Matrix
E: 1.29, S: -0.70

	Re: What Would Make a Better National Anthem? « on: February 12, 2019, 12:03:19 PM »
	« edited: February 12, 2019, 12:06:59 PM by shua »

My Country Tis Of Thee is a beautiful anthem even if we have to share the tune with UK and Liechtenstein. I would go with America The Beautiful, but the Manifest Destiny viewpoint of the first half of the 2nd verse is a bit tricky to deal with.

Logged

🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸
shua
Atlas Star

Posts: 25,752

Political Matrix
E: 1.29, S: -0.70

Re: What Would Make a Better National Anthem?

« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2019, 12:57:54 PM »

Quote from: Free Bird on February 12, 2019, 12:33:30 PM

Also could someone explain the Manifest Destiny innuendos in ATB? I'm not seeing it.

It puts forward the Westward expansion as the march of freedom in the wilderness, which seems to erase the existence of Native peoples across the continent and their own complicated history of freedom.

Logged

Pages: [1]

Jump to:

Page created in 0.02 seconds with 12 queries.