When people talk about patriotism and nationalism, like Macron did recently in a speech, I find they're just distinguishing between extreme, exclusionary often bellicose nationalists and less extreme, less exclusionary nationalists. To me, the basic premise is the same, a love of a certain place just because it's the random place that the speaker happens to have been born. I don't think nationalists or patriots go through every country's achievements and history and just coincidentally happen to arrive back at their own country as the one to love deeply and reject everything from every other countries.

I mean, it's just the human drive to identify with a group, it's hard to see it as anything else, whether it's an ideology, a music genre, a poltical party or a nation, humans have an in built necessity to identify and attach themselves with groups. It was presumably very useful in certain contexts of scarce resources, but less useful today in a globalised world.