And you know what? From their POV they have at least as much reason to think so than you do.
And it really so amazes me that people don't get that. I mean, you'd think it'd be obvious that the reason you think your country is the best is that it's yours, but many people honestly seem to think that people in other countries really should just logically see that America's better. Um, yeah. Perhaps it was the same thing for the Romans secretly thinking of course everybody really wanted to be Roman.
How could the USA do something wrong, ever? Remember, they're the world police! Surely they're right at all times. Sounds Gryffindorish somehow? Well, I think it's the same attitude.
Perhaps it really has something to do with age? As nations go, America still is a pimply teenager. So perhaps this is just a phase?
Sadly, I have thought both of these things far too often. We really do seem to be the teenager of the world at the moment, down to the idealized view of own childhoods being "purer" than the rotten world of today!
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Date: 2004-11-05 02:19 pm (UTC)And it really so amazes me that people don't get that. I mean, you'd think it'd be obvious that the reason you think your country is the best is that it's yours, but many people honestly seem to think that people in other countries really should just logically see that America's better. Um, yeah. Perhaps it was the same thing for the Romans secretly thinking of course everybody really wanted to be Roman.
How could the USA do something wrong, ever? Remember, they're the world police! Surely they're right at all times. Sounds Gryffindorish somehow? Well, I think it's the same attitude.
Perhaps it really has something to do with age? As nations go, America still is a pimply teenager. So perhaps this is just a phase?
Sadly, I have thought both of these things far too often. We really do seem to be the teenager of the world at the moment, down to the idealized view of own childhoods being "purer" than the rotten world of today!