"Nobody rips on the French when they say they have the best."
Everybody does, it is called "chauvinism". There is nothing wrong believing your country is the best, provided that you have actually traveled to other countries and know it is a fact. You will find your country being the best "at something", but could learn and improve a lot from other countries as well.
The problem with chauvinism is not understanding other countries(not knowing other cultures or countries) making yourself prejudices that are not real, and the mass of people being easily manipulated by the power establishment.
Given that the US has the biggest army in the world, with nuclear subs, nuclear missiles, drones and stuff, American prejudices are extremely important for the rest of the world.
For people living in Libya or Syria, Afghanistan , Iran or Saudi Arabia, American prejudices and actions could be the difference between being alive or dead, for you and your family, abandoning your country as a refugee with nothing or having everything you have destroyed.
When people in charge want the gross of the people to support an invasion of a foreign county and make a big business with the natural resources, they use patriotism as the main tool(e.g Americans were "being Attacked" in Iraq because 20 people from Saudi Arabia hijacked Americans planes).
> There is nothing wrong believing your country is the best, provided that you have actually traveled to other countries and know it is a fact.
Yes, there is. No single country can be "the best" or "the greatest", because this term is ridiculously underdefined. (The same fallacy applies to the submission, btw.)
Everybody does, it is called "chauvinism". There is nothing wrong believing your country is the best, provided that you have actually traveled to other countries and know it is a fact. You will find your country being the best "at something", but could learn and improve a lot from other countries as well.
The problem with chauvinism is not understanding other countries(not knowing other cultures or countries) making yourself prejudices that are not real, and the mass of people being easily manipulated by the power establishment.
Given that the US has the biggest army in the world, with nuclear subs, nuclear missiles, drones and stuff, American prejudices are extremely important for the rest of the world.
For people living in Libya or Syria, Afghanistan , Iran or Saudi Arabia, American prejudices and actions could be the difference between being alive or dead, for you and your family, abandoning your country as a refugee with nothing or having everything you have destroyed.
When people in charge want the gross of the people to support an invasion of a foreign county and make a big business with the natural resources, they use patriotism as the main tool(e.g Americans were "being Attacked" in Iraq because 20 people from Saudi Arabia hijacked Americans planes).