Originally Posted by RummyBoy

Sure but he's right - there's always a nationalistic contingent of people who will always say his country is the best. That may be partly because the vast majority of the masses have seldom travelled outside the country of their citizenship or birth or whatever. Plus very few people have the education to be able to separate a simple thing like "Objective" versus "Subjective" - most people don't know the difference.

And as Kipling said: "What can he know of England, Who England only knows." In other, words how can you compare another country to your own if you haven't even left your home country.