For third-world nations who have won their political independence at great cost and are still struggling to win their economical independence, for people who have been told from childhood "your country is shit, you can't never progress here, you must leave as soon as you can" either implicitly or explicitly by their own ruling classes and media, for people who have suffered the explotation of imperialism and have lost their prosperity, liberty and culture in the process, to love their own land and people is a revolutionary act.
To say "this is my country, I love it and I'm proud of it, and I want to make it better" is an act of courage and love that people from first-world nations whose national pride was build in conquest and imperialism can't comprehend. After living through entire generations where your country was considered, by both the imperial powers and your own local rulers, as little more than a source of raw materials, and then stop and say, "no, this is not true, we have history, culture and things to be proud of, we can make a better country, we can stand with the rest of the world as free people, as equals", to find love and solace in your own land, is something extraordinary.
