In Reply to: Is there a country without strong mythology? posted by DSCBruin on December 05, 2024 at 17:46:02
an imperial period. Every nation has its own mythology but having had an imperial period, having been a major political player in the world at some point seems to turbo charge the whole thing.
What makes us worse is that we're the most recent imperial power on the world stage (China probably feels that way too) so our hypocrisies are much fresher in our minds and also they happen to be *our* hypocrisy, which cuts deeper for obviuos reasons.