Discussion on Self-Perception and Identity

We are intelligent.

So let us stop making ourselves smaller than we are.

There's a German expression for that, selbstverzweigung.

Selbstverzweigung, to put into, into English,

imagining Europeans as dwarves on the world scale.

We are not dwarves. There's a dwarf that behaves like a giant, that's true,

and

that's Russia.