I completely agree with you. It is the question of which relation is primary to us: the one born out of natural necessity, or the one one we freely chose by baptism - relation with God. We have a similair problem in Orthodoxy with ethnopyletism, where local Churches are developed on the national principle. Apostle Paul openly said: "There is neither Jew nor Gentile" (Gal 3, 28), which doesn't cut off our national identity, it just places it under our primary relation - relation with Christ.