Where and to whom one is born is beyond choice. It is a common human trait to become emotionally attached to family and kin, community and faith, state and country, usually with little or no reasoning involved beyond rationalization.
For those who seek an intellectual as well as an emotional perspective, the distinctions between their attachments and those of others gradually disappear. Boundaries between them and us erode as one becomes aware that nothing and no one is superior or inferior and that the only relevant difference is suffering.
Neither religion or nationality is as important as acting with compassion for those whose travails have drawn their consciousness inward and have not learned or have lost sight of the oneness of creation.