Loving your country is considered a virtue, and for a patriot, love for the country should not have any limit. Blind love has its own pitfalls, and there is no convincing argument except emotional ones to justify that. However, patriotism has been in the past and still continues to be used by political and social entrepreneurs to build nation-states.
In regular intervals in recent history, the ‘patriotic’ passive love by countrymen is not even seen as enough. There are calls for the love for the country to be enthusiastically displayed, That sometimes is accompanied by hatred towards the country’s perceived enemy, both outside and within.