Chris At Home

Did you read the study a few years ago that said that the more incompetent you are, the more likely you are to feel that you are good at a task? This poll reminded me of that study.

In a 2002 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey, 60% of Americans agreed with the statement: "Our people are not perfect, but our culture is superior to others."

This placed Americans in the bottom third of the 43 national publics surveyed, far behind counties such as Indonesia (90% completely or mostly agreed with the statement), South Korea (90%), Egypt (88%), Mexico (86%), India (85%), Mali (80%), Uzbekistan (77%), Bolivia (77%), Tanzania (77%), and Bulgaria (74%).

Among the publics of Western Europe, on the other hand, there was even less inclination to assert cultural superiority than in the United States. Just 55% of Italians agreed with the statement; as did just 40% of Germans; just 37% of the British; and just 33% of the French, the smallest percentage among any of the 43 nations surveyed.

Egypt?
Mexico?
Mali?
Tan-friggin'-zania is culturally superior to other countries?

Any comment would be superfluous.
H/T to Betsy, who wonders why Mexicans flee Mexico to come to the USA if the Mexican culture is superior.