The bar to be patriotic is fairly low.
Patriots are people who read up about their country and are well informed. Some of them traveled even through some "inner borders". They have spend all their time learning what their country is. And their neighbor had to clean their left-alone house while they did that.
I really wonder when we can stop overestimating us and just return to a size we actually can grasp without a computer thumbnail. If you look for patriotism go in some huge city and ask people for the names of those who live in a 0,1 mile radius. A patriot knows more than others. lol.
Or fuck nationalism because it was artificial from the very beginning.