Myth that to win a country you need to win its countrymen

Of late there has been amplified noise within the country on who constitute nationalists and who are to be identified as its traitors. Officially whosoever adheres allegiance to constitution of the country are indeed eligible to identify themselves as nationalists. But entire spin is about unofficial domain.

Informally a rule is being setup on ways to segregate the population as friends and foes of the establishment based on allegiance to local dominance. And who forms the local dominance, it is yet another complex permutation and combination of caste, religion, politics, money and so on. This local dominance brag about its influence both political and monetary that they dictate their own diktats on recognizing newcomers as a nationalist.

 

They are so emboldened that they openly challenge whosoever tries to override local dominance and label them as the traitors. Their only logic for being so emboldened is the fact they have been a localite for generations guarding the land and culture since ages and hence expect newcomers to be obliged to them. 

Speaking in their own language, assuming the locality as women, is it enough to just guard the body of the women in order to appropriate her self ? More than guarding the minerals of the locality guarding the values represented by the locality gives more impetus to the argument of feeling ownership of the locality. If a newcomer intakes values and enshrines them in his contribution he becomes more localite than the one who simply guards the material aspect of place.