Isn't advocacy of a national welfare system an expression of racism?

I keep thinking about what occurrences in my life may have facilitated my departure from statism, and there's another thing that's certainly worth mentioning: Throughout much of my childhood and all of my adolescence, I have been fiercely opposed to the existence of countries. Some anarchists have told me that their allegiance to their country has been something of a hurdle on their journey to anarchism, whereas I would still be pretty happy to bid all countries farewell.

Why was I opposed to countries at such a young age? That's pretty easy. I grew up in Luxembourg, an extremely international speck of land where everything is right around the corner from Germany, France AND Belgium, I'm a citizen to both Germany and Switzerland, I was raised bilingual and went to an international school. So I suppose it was essentially in an attempt to parade the accident of my international upbringing as a virtue that I opposed the existence of countries. That may have been a stupid reason, but I think there are good sides to this.

When statists argue for any kind of coerced solidarity, it still escapes me how they can simply overlook the sheer arbitrariness of the choice of the group of people that individuals should be forced to support. I never got a good answer to the question "If you value helping the poor, then why oh why are you so concerned for unemployed people in frickin' Germany (if it's a german person I'm talking to) to the extent that you want people to be forced at gunpoint to give money to those germans, while you're not expressing even a shred of interest for, and even seek to divert resources from helping people in subsaharan Africa or elsewhere, people who can only dream of the wealth and opportunities of an unemployed person in Germany?"

Maybe some reader can help me out with this, since no statist I've ever asked this question has been helpful in clearing my confusion. Isn't advocacy of a national welfare system, of protectionist policies, or of any national subsidy a blatant expression of racism?

And Yet Another Tribute to the Power of Bottom-Up Organization...

...and a lesson in humility that those who would put a group of people "in charge of society" desperately need to learn.

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