I'll put it this way: I'm very patriotic, I love my country. But I think the concept of national pride is silly because honestly I, personally, have played an extremely insignificant role in shaping the country that America is today, and what makes it a great country. In my opinion, it's pretty much the same situation as being proud of one's race. Asian pride? Black pride? Just what is there to be proud of? I'm Asian. Why should I be proud of that fact? It's a result of happenstance. I had nothing to do with the Chinese invention of paper, or gunpowder, of whatever other achievements Asians as a whole have accomplished. Should an individual black person be proud of the fact that black people, as a whole, produce some ridiculous basketball players? I don't think so.
Personally, I think such pride of the type that I described above results from a distorted and inflated sense of group identity. Like I said before, I love my country and I am patriotic. But I don't think being proud of one's country is really all that logical; I hope u can understand where I'm coming from.