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I have to disagree. Without at least a little pride or the want to have pride in where we come from, what incentive is there to do things like cataloging history or preserving cultures and languages. I don't think all cultures are objectively or subjectively good by any stretch, but their information, knowledge, and ritual is 100% worth cataloging and knowing, if anything just to preserve knowledge of what not to do.
For example, the confederate south. Is it worth keeping up monuments and statues honoring the traitors? Absolutely not. Is it worth keeping knowledge of what happened so that we might not repeat it? Absolutely. Without a healthy amount of patriotism, in this case the hope that where we come from can improve, why wouldn't we just wipe away that history and pretend it didn't happen? That's a major line where it switches from patriotism to nationalism.
But mostly it's just the want to improve where you're from that's why I believe you should have a healthy amount of patriotism. Without it, why bother doing anything at all, from protesting to ~~rioting~~ violent encouragement to do something different.
Anyways, hope that what my overly caffeinated brain wrote down makes sense
I really don't get your point. I consider myself to be an anarcho-communist and will start a volunteer year at an archaeoligical institution to see if I want to study it at a university.
You don't need to love your country to learn about it.
Why pride if interest is more than enough? A nation is inherently an invention. It creates a story why it came to be and why all the different cultures in it's territory are now "the people". I don't think you need that to be happy about where you live and/or to improve. It is also not needed to document history.
You do not need to love your nation-state to want to preserve history or learn from the past.
That is such warped logic.