"You could say that he was like me" would be narcissistic. Membership of a category does not imply the greatness of other members of that category. Germans mi

"You could say that he was like me" would be narcissistic. Membership of a category does not imply the greatness of other members of that category. Germans might be proud of Goethe, but only a misguided German would take that to imply his or her own greatness.