# Should the American Left reclaim Patriotism?

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**Created:** [July 26, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-american-left-reclaim-patriotism/1004816 "2024-07-26T14:10:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-american-left-reclaim-patriotism/1004816/61 "2024-09-08T19:36:39Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> I’ve seen that same sort of people get into rants about how the popularity of nature scenes on calendars is due to “Western Imperialism”.

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Now that’s a new level of ideological weirdness I hadn’t run across. I’d be curious if you had a link to someone defending that proposition, because I’m curious to just how they are arguing something like for example [Ukiyo-e nature scenes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukiyo-e) (which show up incessantly on calendars) are the result of Western Imperialism. I mean Hokusai was dead well before Admiral Perry “opened Japan.”

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