Britain is the best country in the world?

First of all, I’m not British. I met a British person recently, who told me that Britain is the best. He said Britain invented the cars, aeroplanes, ships and all. ( is this true?) He also said Britain has the Queen, colonised a lot of countries and contributed a lot to the world.

I was flabbergasted lol. Why would one be proud of colonisation though. It’s horrible. I have never encountered anyone with so much patriotism or rather arrogance haha. I asked what did he think about Brexit, he gave me cynical smile and said everything will still be the same and Germany would not take the lead. I then replied if he had thought about the financial sectors such as there won’t be any passport rights for the UK banks anymore plus it’s the most important sector in the UK. He said well Britain will go back to manufacturing and doing other good things it did before.

To be honest, I don’t even know why I had that conversation with him. It’s very obvious he has not exposed to many other advancements in other countries lol. Probably, he doesn’t even have the money to fly out of the UK lol

Have anyone of you met anyone like this before? What a joke honestly hahaha

At the gym. Lol

Lol come on why would I make up such an interesting story. Anyway believe or not. It’s quite entertaining anyway the way I see it haha

Lol come on why would I make up such an interesting story.

I'm not sure you know what that word means.

Well, I wonder why people don’t believe this happened. Probably it is so shocking that people refuse to believe it. People refuse to believe there are people like this in the society. That’s why they are probably marginalised by the society. You have to acknowledge that there are all kinds of people in the society, regardless how advanced or developed a country is.

Also, shall I say it’s a story that shows how unknowledgeable one person can be?

First of all, I’m not British. I met a British person recently, who told me that Britain is the best. He said Britain invented the cars (generally credited to German engineer Karl Benz), aeroplanes (generally credited to the American Wright brothers), ships (likely Ancient Egyptians) and all. ( is this true?) He also said Britain has the Queen (Not sure why this makes us the best country in the world), colonised a lot of countries (arguably not a good thing) and contributed a lot to the world (I suppose so, but probably not more than every other country).

Have anyone of you met anyone like this before? What a joke honestly hahaha

I'll file this encounter under "things that never happened"

I'd say Britain is certainly up there, there aren't many places I'd choose to live in over Britain to be honest

First of all, I’m not British. I met a British person recently, who told me that Britain is the best.

What a joke honestly hahaha

For starters, choosing a best country is impossible. There are too many metrics and there'll never be a decisive agreement as to which are most important. Some countries will have better education but recycle less, others will have a bigger military but not export much. So claiming any country is "the best in the world" is a bit of a foolish thing to do.

With that being said, a lot of what he says isn't entirely wrong. We didn't invent cars, aeroplanes or ships. Germans did cars (which Americans then popularised... then ruined), Americans did planes, and god knows who did ships. We have however done a lot over the years though to further technology, engineering in particular. I'd be relatively comfortable better there are more British inventions you use in your day to day life than from any other single nation. America might just eek out a lead depending on your lifestyle.

As for colonialism, yes, it wasn't exactly great, but it's not all negatives. There are nations who are better off now than they would have been if they weren't part of the commonwealth. Would have been nice if there wasn't so much war and oppression in the process, but in those days that was sort of the way of the world.

For starters, choosing a best country is impossible. There are too many metrics and there'll never be a decisive agreement as to which are most important. Some countries will have better education but recycle less, others will have a bigger military but not export much. So claiming any country is "the best in the world" is a bit of a foolish thing to do.

With that being said, a lot of what he says isn't entirely wrong. We didn't invent cars, aeroplanes or ships. Germans did cars (which Americans then popularised... then ruined), Americans did planes, and god knows who did ships. We have however done a lot over the years though to further technology, engineering in particular. I'd be relatively comfortable better there are more British inventions you use in your day to day life than from any other single nation. America might just eek out a lead depending on your lifestyle.

As for colonialism, yes, it wasn't exactly great, but it's not all negatives. There are nations who are better off now than they would have been if they weren't part of the commonwealth. Would have been nice if there wasn't so much war and oppression in the process, but in those days that was sort of the way of the world.