I heard an English comedian say, “Great Britain? It’s not great. It’s pretty good, but not great.”
I’ve lived and worked in 12 different countries, and everywhere, the locals bragged about how great their country or city is, so much better than any other place.
Most of them had never been anywhere else, so they had no idea.
Ethnocentrism – insisting that “My school’s better than your school”, even though I’ve never set foot inside your school.
Every country I’ve lived includes truly magical places, and heart-warming loving people, all different, unique, and beautiful in themselves.
A garden with only one kind of flower would just be pretty good. With hundreds of gloriously different flowers and settings, the garden becomes magnificently gorgeous.
All the flowers together, all the diversity of humanity together, to me, that is what is truly beautiful, genuinely great.
