My country, my planet

Take people out of a country and with them will be flushed out the culture, the history & all the traditions. What will we be left with? There’d be no political ideals, no patriotic fervor, no religious pride, no senseless hedonism. All that remains is just plain geography (and its factors). Then what is that elusive misunderstood concept that we refer to as ‘my country’? It’s not the physical mass of land nor the waters and mountains, it’s just a sense of belonging, and an identity that we crave for and afraid of losing. No common good can ever happen or be imagined unless we expand our sense of pride to ‘my planet’.