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When I lived in Singapore they taught all the Singaporeans that they were the best in the world in just about everything, really everything. From culinary to fashion, technology to urban planning. Lee Kuan Yew stood up and told everyone to be proud to be a Singaporean saying how they rose up from an impoverished nation like their neighbors to metropolis worthy of the world stage.

Watching The King and I the other day, the teacher shows them a new map where Siam is not the largest thing in the center of the map, but just small part of the SE Asian peninsula. The prince was rather upset to discover this "new view."

As I travel around the world these past number of years, I have come to realize that the world isn't much different from place to place. People have strong national pride towards their homelands, while sometimes they may be embarassed by particular moments, as a whole, they still are proud of their nation's position.

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