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Anyone else think it is weird that "Born in the USA" is the featured video on the United States page?

http://www.mahalo.com/united-states

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkpl70Rl5os&eurl=http://www.mahalo.com/United_States

This youtube video is the number one link on the United States page as well as the featured video. Also I don't think the people who made the video have ever listened to the words of the song. I'm not criticizing "Born in the USA," I just don't think this is an appropriate place for the song.
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kerryk kerryk
 
 June 09, 2009 12:26 AM
I hadn't looked at the page before, but yes that is strange and to me, not the appropriate video. Should be something like a video of someone singing the National Anthem, or God Bless America or America The Beautiful


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canadamom canadamom
 
June 09, 2009 12:58 AM
I think it is absolutely appropriate. It is also the song used by many fireworks displays on July 4.

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johngugie johngugie
 
October 30, 2009 10:33 AM
why is it is inappropriate? There's nothing controversial about it. it's all about American pride, which is the same thing the national anthem is about.

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psionandy psionandy
 
October 30, 2009 10:49 AM - New Source
You do know the lyrics and not just the chorus right?

---quote---
I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go

I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
----quote----

http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/BornInTheUSA.html

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pmacdon1 pmacdon1
 
November 18, 2009 03:19 AM
I am not saying the song is always inappropriate. I'm just saying it isn't patriotic. It was written as a protest against the Vietnam War, as the lyrics @psionandy posted demonstrate, therefore I don't think its the best song for the USA page.

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johngugie johngugie
 
November 18, 2009 05:07 AM
did any of you consider that this song shows freedom of speech, one of the founding amendments of the United States. We have the right to say what we want, which is an American freedom.

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psionandy psionandy
 
November 18, 2009 06:23 AM
@johngugie

I agree... freedom of speech gives you the right to say why you feel you've been 'abandoned' by your own country and shoddily treated by it. Which is exactly what the song Born in the USA is about.

Its NOT really a patriotic song at all.. But people think it is because they only sing the 4 word chorus. The American National Anthem is about American Pride, Born in the USA is about American Shame.

Great song though... and great lyrics.

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kaliekat kaliekat
 
November 18, 2009 06:36 AM
@ psionandy Where did you get the lyrics, "He had a little girl in Saigon" from? Your link shows the lyrics as, "He had a woman he loved in Saigon".

I'm not sure why this question has been resurrected after almost six months but I was curious about this quote?

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pmacdon1 pmacdon1
 
November 18, 2009 07:42 PM
"A Birth of a Nation" demonstrates free speech too, that is not a reasonable qualification.

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psionandy psionandy
 
November 18, 2009 08:43 PM
@kaliekat When I looked up the lyrics the first time it gave me that... but the page wouldn't link, so I linked from another.

I think there may have been a couple of different stage versions but I'm not sure. I think that the "woman" quote is the 'correct' one.

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