The Ideological Caste and its Tyranny
There is a distinction between natural and artificial societies. Natural societies grow organically within a group of people with a shared ancestry. This is why patriotism is natural – it grows from emotional relationships and does not need a theory or ideological underpinning. There is more to human nature than reason and the act of bonding with your people and territory is a process of feeling, instinct, intuition and other human qualities.
Shared ancestry is not enough - societies grow when these members co-operate and live with one another in friendship. Those who have the same set of ancestors and a shared history will have a closer affinity than those who do not, this is true. But shared ancestry is not a necessary prerequisite for the "organic" development and perpetuation of a community, though it has a place in the history of that community and in human history in general. What is more important is what I just wrote above, plus intermingling through marriage and the production of offspring who succeed their parents. In this way can outsiders be fully integrated into a group, once they have adopted the culture and group as their own. (One can imagine the survivors of a shipwreck, each belonging to different ethnicities though all knowing English, eventually hammering out a new society on some island, if they know there is little or no chance for rescue.)
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