Patriotism...?

Independence day was about a week back. the flag was hoisted in reverence, as most wore their Indian finery. speeches were held about heroic tasks performed 61 years ago and we were reminded how as a generation we are uncaring and inapt. less than an hour later, i was sprawled on my bed in jeans and a t-shirt watching 'the simpsons', and i couldn't help thinking whether i should be feeling guilty about my clearly inconsiderate lack of patriotism. and that got me thinking about the whole concept of patriotism. the more i thought about it, the more absurd it seemed to me. does any one have only one place they adore? if you haven't travelled then probably, but for those of us who have gotten around, its practically impossible. but patriotism decates that you must be loyal to only one place. it doesn't leave room for the resonable possibility that its citizen may prefer another locale equally, or heck, even more. why must anyone be required to be reverant to an area just because they were born there?
before you start sending me hate mail, let me explain my self. i think patriotism is an excellent way of uniting people of varied backgrounds. i just think that patriotism, as it is being defined today, is horribly misleading and can be quite dangerous. my primary issue with patriotism is the boundary it imposes. not only should no one be required to be loyal to certain man-made demarcations, they shouldn't want to be either. as a person entering the 21st century, poised at the brink of an exponentional globalisation, it seems ridiculous to be going backwards and putting up boundaries just as they are being distroyed. my (other!) primary concern with national patriotism is that it creates divides among land and hence among people. the concept of 'mine' and 'yours' is no longer abstract. it can be quantified. this has lead to, and will continue to lead to regional conflicts in many forms.
my solution, as unreal as it is, is simple. replace national patiotism with global patriotism. let people be loyal not only to their place of birth or origin but also to everyother nook and cranny of this planet. no one wants to harm whats theirs. no one would want to wage wars, whether economic or political, on their own land! no one would want to dump their radio active waste in their own land. no one would want to lead a part of their own land into accepting unreasonable loans. thats absurd! and that is what we should try to achieve.
(the counter argument to what i just said would be that people are inherently twisted, and that in reality no one thinks twice even when comminting atrocities on their own. also global patriotism is extremely 'large' - if you know what i mean- and that fragementation is inevitable. ALSO that if we did achieve global patriotism, people would still need someone to unload their radioactive waste onto and there is a good chance that this might be along racial lines. but like i said, i never claimed for my solution to be the one. what i do know however, is that national patriotism is getting us no where, so why not give this a shot?)