Why are people patriotic, in this day and age of the self-as-individual? If we live in a society where we exist as individual entities first, and a group second, why do you find people who are willing to die for a place? People willing to give up their lives for their allegiance to a geographical location?

It is only when you live an alien culture that you realize what you were protecting. It isn't a place, and it isn't a government, or a constitution. A patriot is protecting a way of life, a culture, a mode of thinking. The patriot protects that culture from which he was spawned, he protects a way of thinking, the only culture which will provide him real comfort. And hence a patriot is protecting home.

I do not owe my allegiance to Pakistan. I owe it to it's people, in whose arms I find home.