It has been the signature model of operation of Nepali Maoist to deceive the general population using greed and fear as they entered the revolution. Generally the people of villages were persuaded by their tactics so the Maoists were able to rise into mainstream politics.

Now, as their ability to use greed and fear among the more educated crowd has diminished, they are using the age old weapon of patriotism to rile up the remaining crowd. Yes the place you stepped on during your birth is the most important thing in your life. Nothing is more important in life as place you were born. For a casual clueless brainwashed Nepali, it seems like the Maoist is speaking the truth so they are happy to follow him once again for he only speaks the truth about how great the motherland is.

For more practical people who know how great the motherland is, they quickly realized that motherland is simply an extension of the earth. Before everything else, we are human beings, and human beings are from planet earth. So our foremost identity is human beings from planet earth. Then we can divide our identity by country, city, village, ethnicity, race, school, politics, and anything else your heart desires or has been conditioned by your upbringing.

Yes, you can keep stressing on your ethnicity and keep practicing meaningless customs if that makes you feel good about yourself, or you can embrace the modern day world and strive to compete in a global world. There is nothing wrong with being proud of your country, but there is nothing wrong with being prouder of your global position either.

Before the age of internet, when everything was limited by national boundaries, it made sense to be excessively conditioned by nationalistic feelings but with the onset of internet and free flowing information and ideas, we do not need to limit ourselves to a restricted view. If you choose to limit yourself to your age old views then it's your loss.

Some people had given example of leaving your own mother like leaving Nepal. But that is a very cheap analogy. The anology is closer when you compare being brought up by loving parents and then when you grow up, you want to seek your own fortune and destiny so you leave your parent's nest and try to move on to bigger and better things but you never lose the love for your parents. Even if your parents have their own issues you love them and try to visit whenever you can.

However I have known parents who are outright abusive to their children even after the children have grown up, so they might consider not going back to their parents. That's the same story with place of birth. If place of birth is great and gives you great opportunity and is a good place to live your life, then you don't mind going back to it. But if it's full of bad things, negative energy, insecurity, and things beyond your control then as a reasonable human being you make your own decision to go there or not. (And infested with parasites like the Maoist - I might add)

Noone has the right to point fingers at you for making your own decisions. Those people who point fingers do not have any other opportunities so they want to drag you down as well so they don't feel so bad. Otherwise I don't see a reason for them to drag you down. They are nothing but sore losers. They should question themselves, if they love Nepal so much what have they done for it? Just staying in Nepal and saying I love Nepal doesn't mean a thing.

Try to get in a relationship with a woman and keep saying you love her but don't do anything for love. Just saying I love you doesn't mean crap, and that's your misplaced patriotism to you sir.