3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Hi everyone, I apologize for being so long in grading this question, but I have been very busy with other matters and wanted to give everyone a solid opportunity to respond. I was also torn between luzou's and Lew Shiong Fong's response, because each emphasized a different important aspect of the term that no one else provided. Although I am not certain about the origin of the notion of civic pride, I have always understood it to mean something other than taxi-driver or big city arrogance. Also, civic and community pride, although very close in meaning and sometimes interchangeable, are not synonymous. Civic pride is more formal in nature and closely associated with the notion of civic society -- namely, a form of modern social organization that arises through organized initiatives taken on the part of private citizens. It is bottom-up social organization that fills in where government arrogance and bureaucratic ineptitude so often fall short. Although I disagree strongly with the entry cited by luzou, his/her entry did contain an important element that the other entries did not -- namely, the notion of caring about one's own that is captured in the word 愛我. Lew Shiong Fong's answer captured of course the notion of civic society with the word 公民. I believe he got it from the Japanese expression. There was also another difficulty in the translation related to the use of the word pride. Pride is viewed as a much more positive human quality in the West than it is in the East. Also, between Chinese and Japanese, the former are likely to rate it more highly than the latter. I have thus entered the term in two ways, each of which captures different aspects of the same phenomenon, neither of which is entirely satisfactory, however. Maybe someday, I will know enough Chinese and come up with a better translation. In any case, thank you everyone for your help."