On Saturday, 25 February 2017 15:35:31 UTC+1, Chris L Peterson wrote:

Regrettably so. The inclination to patriotism is one of the things
that may lead to our demise.

Patriotism is one of the most absurd notions ever to be invented by man.
Where one is born is a condition over which no person in history has ever had the slightest control.
How can the unborn child choose anything [at all]?
Do they choose their sex, their religion, their class, eye or hair colour?
If the mother wanders across a nation's border for an hour and gives birth is the child then expected to be a patriot of that borrowed land?
Should they support the local tin-pot dictator and the national football team?
The border to many lands is completely invisible on the ground.

Should the second generation immigrant feel patriotism for his host's land or his mother or father's original place of upbringing?
Who does every Irish-American still speak with an Irish accent over a century after their great grandparents left "home?"
To which country do _they_ feel the greatest patriotism?

To which country should the refugee feel patriotism?
They move into a ghetto and dress their family only in their traditional costume.
They speak only their traditional language, watch TV from home on a satellite dish and worship in a "traditional" way.
Are they "unpatriotic" to their host's land and traditions?
Should they become soldiers and fight against their "homeland?"
Or become mercenaries for a terrorist organization?
Fighting in their "homeland" against the soldiers of their family's "host" nation?
Is that patriotic or unpatriotic? And to whom or to what? ;-)