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The United States will soon mark 250 years since its creation, at a moment when many Americans are divided, fearful and worried about the future of the nation.

For the last several months, we've gone into different communities asking people this question, what does patriotism mean to you?

Today, you'll hear from Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and community event organizer Andrey Sklyar.

It's funny, it's become a dirty word, right?

These days, to say that you are pro-America, that you value and want to protect and want to cherish it.

Those that feel that the system has failed them don't feel the same way and for valid reasons.

And so that's a really hard question to answer right now because I feel like it would only apply to half of America.

One definition would apply to one half, and the other, the answer would be like, "being patriotic is non-patriotic."

Patriotism means being proud of who we are.

I'll say, as a city and also as a country.

And I think who we are right now is clear, right?

Like, we are one of the most multicultural societies in the world.

Like, we are built on immigration.

We are held together more by our aspirations and our ideals and our values, than by the fact that we all came from the same place.

And I think that that is something that's really beautiful and also something that we're struggling right now to put that into practice as an ideal, as a value.

Tomorrow we'll continue sharing what people told us patriotism means to them.

I'm Paris Jackson, thanks for watching The Newsfeed.