At 10:00 23-5-01 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
>This discussion is not about proving American superiorit. Kat proposed
>that "Americans do not have much reason for being arrogant." I am seeking
>to disprove her proposition.
>
>Kat's proposition makes it a given that:
>-Some people will be arrogant.
>-There are reasons for being arrogant.
>
>I am therfore arguing that arrogance might reasonably stem from pride in
>one's accomplishments. Thus, I am pointing out that Americans have a
>great many accomplishments that one might reasonably take pride in.
Pride is one thing, arrogance is another. The American arrogance is the
best evidence that the US is not so great as it thinks it is.
Only the not so great need to be arrogant, and continuously boast about
what they have accomplished. The truly great don't need that -- they know
they have accomplished something great, and just smile because they know
other people know it too.
There have been some truly great people in history, who accomplished great
things. People like Gandhi, Shakespeare, Einstein, Hawking. Did they
arrogantly boast about how great they were? AFAIK, they didn't. They didn't
need to.
Jeroen
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