Which Reminds Me

Yes, I vaguely remember that someone was making me feel guilty about being too patriotic and boastful of my own country and boasting that my own country is the greatest, even though actually it was my mother who said that, and she was not talking to you, that was not for your ears. I had not thought of saying that at the time that I was berated for supposedly saying that. So that makes me sort of conflicted about what to say about my own country to persons who live in a different country and that is the best they can do at the moment in terms of native country, so do we need to rub their noses in it? Can't we just be gracious without having to argue about who is the greatest country on the planet? Life is more complicated than that.