Anonymous<fighting for your nation's soveregnty and risking being labeled a racist (or worse) to accomplish it>
But how does fighting for illegal immigrants rights threaten the sovereignty of a nation? Are you saying that illegal immigrants should have no rights?
I'm only saying that, in America, you won't find a consensus (or even a majority opinion) on what is considered patriotic.
the OP wanted to know what was worthy of being considered a "true patriot" in my country...
I live in the USA, and I honestly think that a person could be considered a true patriot by some while others consider the same person a parriah.
Our current President is an example of the point I'm making. The debate over what to do about illegal immigration is another.
Jim Gilcrest (former leader of the anti illegal immigrant rights activist group, The Minute Men) was widely considered a racist and a vigilante traitor in some circles.
But a large number of people believed that the work his group was doing was visionary and exactly what the country needed.
A lot of people, though, didn't really have strong opinions on the issue and, as a result, really didn't feel strongly either way.
The argument I'm making is that "true patriotism" in America is very difficult to define because we are such a fragmented nation when it comes to what our nation's role and priorities should be. Maybe that's the inherent flaw of complicated, multitiered representative forms of government when paired with a nation that is host to a very culturally and ethnically diverse (and even transient) population.
.... Or maybe this sentiment isn't uniquely American....
I'd be curious to hear what people in other countries think about this phenomenon (or lack of it) where they live.