Thousands of Chinese came to Australia as migrants in the 80s. So many of them expressed complete shock at coming here and discovering that standards of living were better here than in China, and that they had much more privacy and personal freedom. They had grown up believing that China was the most advanced country in the world, and many suffered not just severe culture shock but an accompanying crisis of beliefs when they came here.

Nationalism is another form of elitism, it encourages a false view of superiority, based on false advertising & propaganda.