Is patriotism bad? Should the United States maintain its pro-America stance (sovereignty) or embrace globalization?

Patriotism is good and necessary for a strong nation. Any other questions?

I've looked at globalization and it scares the hell out of me. Globalization by necessity infers homogenization of government. Keep in mind that the United States is the only nation in all of history wherein the people are sovereign and grant limited rights to the government. Now, I'm sure someone is going to argue, that's a ridiculous statement. Other nations are free. The peoples of other nations have rights. Then they'll point to Great Britain. It too has a Bill of Rights, they'll argue. And in advancing those arguments they will only prove their ignorance. Now, before you go off on a rant, I'm not using "ignorance" as a pejorative. We're all ignorant about lots of things. That includes me. Don't come to me for medical advice or to solve a problem in quantum mechanics. But, if you want to know about rights, I can help. In every other nation, including Great Britain, rights are given to the people by the sovereign (a monarch, a Parliament, whomever). Such rights can be taken away just as easily as they are given (and historically, they have been taken away frequently under the pretext of national need). Others will argue that Americans have lost rights, especially in the past 100+ years that the progressive movement has been inching the nation to the left. However, they too are wrong. No one took away our rights. We simply surrendered them whenever we were lured by the progressives to surrender responsibility to them. What most people missed was the fact that rights and responsibilities are irrevocably linked. For example, when we relinquished responsibility for healthcare to the government, freedom of choice went with it. The govt can now force us to make contracts we don't want.

Now imagine how our government would change under globalization. Do you think that everyone would want to be exactly like us and adopt the US Constitution? Of course not. They'd each have their own favorite system to promote and I don't want any part of them. How about you?

Patriotism is only un-American on college campuses in recent decades.