"A patriot supports his country always but its government only when it deserves it" - now Ben Franklin said that and I think it made sense for small, sparsely populated countries like the original 13 colonies but how can anyone assume that giant countries like France, India, China, and the united States have anything like common culture and heritage from North to South and East to West? Most "nation states" are simply the result of however many territories and peoples some government past or present was able bring under their exclusive control.