Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
Let's set aside our political and ideological differences and take a moment to love our families, hug our children, parents and grandparents and through love and respect, strengthen the bonds that made us the greatest nation on Earth.
Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.
Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.
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