What is patriotism?

[dogsbestfriend06]

Patriotism as displayed by most is no different than an idiot sports fan who irrationally loves their team and hates all others, and has an overly emotional reaction just because some guys who he never knows happen to score some victory against some other guys he doesn't know--and neither group gives a [censored] about the guy to begin with.

See Copernicus for a demonstration of this behavior.