Quote Originally Posted by The Jorge View Post
Why is patriotism so deep though? As I say, it just seems arbitary to me.
It is spiritually-rooted and entirely visceral, an emotion rather than a choice, an unquantifiable connection to place, to earth, to people and their deeds. It is like love, or religion or any other inexplicable need which springs from the soul and defines us as human.

That's how deep it is.