Maybe not bad per se, but from a British perspective, it's certainly quite strange. I would never identify my own or my company's achievements as evidence that

Maybe not bad per se, but from a British perspective, it's certainly quite strange. I would never identify my own or my company's achievements as evidence that the UK was great as a nation. I'd be doing the same in whatever country I lived in. In some ways, we achieve things despite being in the UK rather than because of it. Crushing inequality, expensive education, corrupt politics, lack of housing. These are not very business or tech friendly and are less of a problem elsewhere. Aside from that, feeling proud because of other people's achievements just because you were born in the same country as they were is not really very common in Europe as far as I can tell.