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They say true patriotism only shows itself when being somewhere else, and I can certainly affirm that thought. I've never been patriotic to my home country or even typically Swedish - I cheered for the hockey team when they won the Olympics last time around, but that's about it. The flag or anything else remotely connected to Sweden haven't really meant much to me until now.

The single fact that I have a Swedish flag in my room should be enough to prove my point, but I'm also starting to get a bit sentimental about pretty much any other Swedish things here. There's a type of candy called "Swedish Fish", and I bought a bag of them just because of the name. The thought of Swedish meat balls sound much more appealing than any other kind of meat balls, though I have yet to make them. I have the recipe and everything, but as long as I don't have any lingonberry jam, I'm not going to have any meat balls.

As an interesting side note, I'm getting more and more adapted to the English language. The other day, I was listening to a band singing in Swedish, and thought - in English - "this is a really good band, they have such wonderful lyrics". If that's not an indication of getting converted, then I don't know what is.

Americans, of course, are extremely patriotic in their home country anyway. This might be because most of them aren't aware that there's any other countries at all. Except for Iraq.