I have noticed a reoccuring identity archetype of stereotype of any non-world power (including oddly enough large cities who are a world power) freely complain

I have noticed a reoccuring identity archetype of stereotype of any non-world power (including oddly enough large cities who are a world power) freely complaining about the entity in all aspects and then being offended if an outsider complains about it. As opposed to a "used to it" as a world power and being unable to counter by saying that the matter doesn't affect them. My guess is it might be a result of that sort of defensiveness forming social baselines that it results in a double standard where to say for example "It is because the people of the US doesn't want the pesky innovation part and just wants to rent seek." would be accepted but a non-hypothetical enclosed "It is because Germans don't want the pesky innovation part and just wants to rent seek." would get flagged as flamebait.