And by this part...

However my membership in the Human Race has much more impact on the way I think about myself than the fact that I was born in any particular country.

...I mean that understanding myself in terms of my humanity, and my understanding of what I share with the rest of humanity by virtue of all of us being human, gives me a much better perspective about the world and my place in it, than the matter of which country I live in and where I was born.