I would venture that Schopenhauer's quote also applies to football teams and cities. One is basically a company and one is a legal entity quite akin to a country for this argument

You can be proud about your city, children, footy team, local apple and fruit, even Ms and Ms users

No one in that case you should colonies some island, and Mc vice should do crime.

I agree. Current election landscape shocks Modi as he's struggling to find a majority to win the elections. Results will sealed til evening. As for patriotism, it's compromised hell of a lot in conservatism.

That quite says all that has to be said about "patriotism"

"The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which a person can be proud." - Schopenhauer

patriotism is just another word for the same thing