True enough, "meself". Such emotions and prejudices can always be found in less powerful countries which live next to more powerful neighbors. That's an old story. Don't the Mexicans resent the USA? Moreso than Canadians, I think. Don't the Dutch resent the Germans (and I don't mean just since WWII)? It's a very common thing.

It is usually matched by different sorts of crass prejudice on the part of those in the larger powers toward their smaller neighbors. It goes both ways, but it evidences itself in a different fashion.

The less powerful develop a sense of envy and victimization, while they imagine themselves to be morally superior. The more powerful develop a sense of arrogance and paternalism, and a sense that they can and should be the arbitors of the affairs of the less powerful...and they also imagine themselves to be morally superior.

Each claims the high ground.

Double irony.

It's probably about equally distasteful in either case, and we may all be guilty of it from time to time.