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Have Americans always been this stupid?
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this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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Maybe part of it is the whole "greatest country on earth" stuff as well. In other words, a lack of humility
In the European countries I've lived in, pride like that wasn't really encouraged. And if you're too boastful or what not to the point of arrogance, you tend to get the stink eye
And this applies to patriotism as well. Here in Norway for example, despite us having a stronger claim for stuff like "greatest country", very few people, if any, really feel like being "proud" of one's own country is something that one should be doing, or it being honorable at all. The best I see is that people enjoy living here and, if they see another Norwegian out there or Norway mentioned, they just get happy to see a fellow Norwegian, just because we are relatively small
Honestly, most Norwegians I've met complain about Norway's problems more often than not lmao, despite, all things considered, you can hardly find better countries to live in, except some other European ones depending on your own preferences
There really is just, no culture of like, arrogance. Something that I feel like is very different to the US with its super heavy emphasis on individual capitalistic success
Maybe that's a large part of it as well. A consequence of American culture being so extremely individualistic