We can’t just say we’re “the best country in the world”, we have to live it. We have to, each of us, take responsibility to make it so.
Instead, I see far too many people taking what others in the country might have done (We went to the moon first!) to stand as credit for their own personal pride. Not saying you can’t be grateful for what’s been accomplished, but there’s many who just ride on it and don’t really contribute anything meaningful of their own.
To answer your question: in college, gradually.
We can’t just say we’re “the best country in the world”, we have to live it. We have to, each of us, take responsibility to make it so. Instead, I see far too many people taking what others in the country might have done (We went to the moon first!) to stand as credit for their own personal pride. Not saying you can’t be grateful for what’s been accomplished, but there’s many who just ride on it and don’t really contribute anything meaningful of their own.