nationalism

Let's play a thought experiment. Imagine that you were born in the same place and time, to the same parents, in the same home, and that everything in your life went pretty much the same as it has except you never saw a flag, you never heard nor were required to say the Pledge of Allegiance, and you never saw or heard anything relating to or about patriotism. You grow up. You grow accustomed and attached to that community of your birth.