I know, it's crazy!

Here's something even crazier: imagine if you had a father who kind of thought exactly like that when you were born, because he was physically creating a national identity out of the cultural fabrix... 

Now imagine he raised you to be home anywhere on Earth, to speak half a dozen languages, and basically always look with an outside observer's eye at national structures, visual, musical, and linguistic cultural phenomena, and basically most of what other humans hold dear to their heart, including the stuff that previous generations used to go and die for – so many countries in Europe have monuments in every village dedicated to those who died for "the fatherland / motherland".