If you love your country and are proud of your nation you do not love other countries and are not proud of other nations. As countries/nations are arbitary divisions of land and the people thereon, partiots love and are proud of some people purely because of where they live - patriots are odious bigots, and damn fools to boot for believing in such nonsense. Patriotism is an ideological prop to the ruling classes - don't hate those who boss you around and live off your backs they are British or Irish or Swazi or whatever, hate those who live on the other side of that line that we have drawn, despite the fact they are bossed around and exploited like you they are foreign and dirty and you have nothing in common with them, they say.