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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]No, we don't need to go around telling the world how great we are[/b]. There's also nothing wrong with feeling a sense of pride in much of what our country has accomplished. The leading question of this thread prompted several posters to share those feelings. Nothing wrong with that![/quote]

And yet we do. Constantly.

For all of our greatness, humility is not one of our traits.

BTW, it's usually the people who've never set foot outside of the USA who are most guilty of this obnoxious behavior.[/quote]

Just curious, which countries do you view as being appropriately modest about their achievements?[/quote]

All of them, I guess, since, you know, [b]they don't run around bragging about them[/b], so no examples of the contrary come immediately to mind.

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You think you are cosmopolitan by saying this, but you are in fact a provincial American who has no clue what goes on in the world. Have you ever even lived abroad for an extended period of time?

Citizens of almost all countries are viciously nationalistic and over-estimate their national achievements by many orders of magnitude. Now, their achievements are so small that they still sometimes admit that, you know, American have done more (though they think it's because they stole things from them etc). There was a Pew study a few years ago that showed only maybe a third or a quarter of Americans believed that the US is a world leader in science. That is the kind of people we are.[/quote]

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