Strikes me kind of uneasy...

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by Adam Richards

And that self-righteous attitude is the reason why they "denigrate" us. Whether or not we actually are the "greatest country the face of the earth has ever seen" is inconsequential...

There is a flip side / other shoe here that no one has mentioned.

99% of the people in this country can trace their family back to two people who lived in another country (mostly Europe) and came here at some point with little more than the clothes they were wearing

and the reason they came here is they were either destitute, or they were unwanted in their own homeland.

My grandparents came to the US in 1921 from Germany with nothing but hope for a better life.

So, yeah, we do walk with a bit of a swagger in the US, because when you get down to it, we are the rejects the other countries discarded, and instead of floundering the the 'wilderness' of N. America, we prospered instead.

Prospered and surpassed the nations that had no use for us.