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Status
pride

You own a fancy car, wear fancy clothes, own an expensive purse, or stay at fancy hotels. You think you are better for it.
Never mind the quality aspect, you think you are better by brand association. Marketers are good at that.
The best ones win LION awards.

The prediction does say a shift from materialism to spirituality doesn't it?

 

Patriotism

This is a nasty one, because people use it against you if you do something that goes against the state. As if you are some traitor.

 

 

US Marines - The Few, The Proud, The Marines. Are all marines this prideful? I DO NOT KNOW. But by CONditioning it is a strong possibility.

Recent books

 

Immigrant pride

The US has the highest immigration in absolute #s from countries afar. Just a guess based off USA being 3rd largest country. I DO NOT KNOW.

Migration Policy Institute 

A person arrives in a new country nearly penniless, then achieves success. Or worse - pride in escaping whatever bad situation they were in before.
(Relative or absolute)
 

Citizenship swearing in ceremony.
I looked for other nations, but the best examples I found were for America.
Substitute your flag.
 

 

School bully /
Punk Pride

Many of us are familiar with the local school bully. xxxxxxxx

Columbine, Virginia Tech, Finnish shooting...

BBC NEWS | Europe | Finland gunman suicide note found

 

Racist
Pride

 
Art by Jason Aponte

 

This is rooted in jealousy, and therefore is among the hardest forms of pride to kill completely. Only until one reaches the 7th phrase - the true name of evil, will one be able to get rid of this.

I know this one well. For I have seen how people treat me in different countries and in different regions of  the US.
Of particular note - is seeing how girls look and react to me differently.  In some places - being Chinese/Asian is a benefit, in others it is a drawback.

 

Religious Pride

 

religious photo

Jewish kippah skull cap,

 

 

Christian cross on neck

India red-dot

 

 

 

 

 

Closely tied in with this is : Pride in land

Yosemite, GRand Canyon, Italian Alps, Great Barrier Reef, South Africa, Iguassu,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wealth
pride

You have a fat salary, tons of investments to look after, travel and stay at the finest resorts (Notice it's not a budget travel magazine), have a showcase home, and have money raining down from the sky in to your wallet - currency or plastic.
It's easy to get this pride because the whole capitalist system promotes it.

 

Victory
Pride

Recent Russian victory parade
Still commemorating victory in 1945!!

Great Leap Forward poster

The most insidious one of them all. You think you've won, but quite often you end up on a slippery slope to hell.
Example: Victors of WW2 - US, Russia, China

USA - Became paranoid over red communist threat. Soviet Union - Paranoid over US and all the purging that went on in this nation. Both - Development of ridiculous sized  nuclear weapons in the cold war. Why? Paranoia. China - Mao went crazy with his ridiculous and disastrous Great Leap Forward. The proud people/fearful - eagerly followed. Fools. Winners become losers. They also decided to invade Tibet and caused disaster there too. Mao's picture still hangs in Tianamen square.

Crime levels today are FAR, FAR higher in the US than in Europe - which was ravaged. Pride = fear = paranoia.

U.S. Suffers Winner’s Complex — Gorbachev - Interview (Mosnews-Russia)

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