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flag of Stars and Stripes. A Chinese writer has ever met an American couple who are stars both in Old Bridge of New Jersey. Some colleagues at his side ask them to sign their names on the T-shirts and notebooks. The man wears relaxing trousers of leisure, one of his legs of the trousers is the design of blue base and white stars, and another is the design of red and white stripes. Griffith Joyner, The declined American star of the track and field, was once called “The Flower Butterfly”. The impression she left people’s mind is not only the world record with lightning speed of 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, but also her flaunting postures and expressions, the competition dress with only one leg of trousers, and her long nail on which is painted the design of the national flag. There are so many great figures in America: the magnates such as Rockefeller and Morgan, who are intelligent and capable; the scientists such as Edison and Bell, who are talented and diligent; and the statesmen such as Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt, who have courage, stratagem and politics. What they have done largely helps to bring about the success of the development of American economy. American people have such a high degree of respect for the national flag and American people give publicity to the spirit of the United States around the national flag enormously all over the world. In order to ensure the loyalty to the nation of every newcomer into America, they hold the ceremony of becoming American citizens for the immigrants every year. So thousands upon thousands of immigrants stand under the national flag and swearing to be loyal to America. Then they can get the qualification of being the citizens of America and they become the members of the country formally at that moment. There is no crime of subverting the government in the law, but the crime of betraying their country is always more serious than the crime of murder in America. In different countries, the representation of patriotism is different in a thousand ways. But the emotions in it are connected so much by implication. Almost all other countries in the world are quite different from America in the conception of country because they are ones on the base of nations and they have the connection of nations all along. But America is a new country of immigrants, there is no natural base of nations, they depend on the contact of ideals. So it is important that American people carry out the education of patriotism by using the national flag. It is also obvious that the national flag plays such an important role and has such an important function in the process of the education. People always say that the national flag is “the steel muscles and bones of the country” and “the cement of the society”. (Cheng Hong, 2) B. Problems of American Patriotism With the passage of time, the meaning of patriotism has changed a lot. You see the flag everywhere now, people say, “what so proudly we feel”, “We are proud to be Americans,” it can be known from all flags on front porches in small towns across the country. Some homes seem to have been built to fly the flag. This would not be complete without it; just perfect. “We are American too”, it is the message from the flags which inelegantly glued to the city apartment windows. The declaration of patriotic intent is everywhere. People can be persuaded from the simplest things, such as the displays where one flag was considered not enough. Rockefeller C