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It is perfectly natural to think that one's own tribe, religion, nation ... is the "natural" and "normal" one. If one's particular group is more advanced in one way or another than other groups, this can lead to arrogance, and undoubtedly has, for some Americans.
As the world draws slowly together, though, arrogance becomes a handicap.
I recall sitting in a bar in Leningrad, during the Perestroika period, before the city was renamed, and watching a group of American kids lighting their cigarettes with Russian rouble notes. I thought at the time, how stupid they were, since we (I am an American) need the Russians as allies, and there could be no better way of instilling a deep hatred of America among them, than doing this.
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