> I suspect that, much like the U.S., the French simply have grown accustomed to seeing themselves as having the best education in the world. So when I read com

> I suspect that, much like the U.S., the French simply have grown accustomed to seeing themselves as having the best education in the world. So when I read comments like this, I just tell myself that this must be what it's like all the time for people in other countries hearing Americans bragging about the U.S. In my experience (not American, though I work in the US), that isn't usually the case in the tech field. I've almost never heard Americans bragging about how good or exclusive their school is. Now there is a lot of mystique about being from the Ivy League in the US, but it is usually confined to status and social connections within the US ("ooooh, he went to Harvard and the Yale for grad school, must have connections") rather than being compared worldwide. Maybe this is what you mean by "bragging about the US"?