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RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Patriotism derives from the ancient Greek πατρις, ("ancestor's land" or "clan lands"), in turn from πατρια (the extended family, clan, or other group of common ancestry), in turn from πατερ ("father"). The term πατρις referred to a set of people of recent common ancestry, in the Indo-European and Semitic cultures alike, symbolized by a common patriarch -- a group of relatives, and of the common bonds those relatives had.Patriotism was not about watching TV and getting all gung-ho ...