How can a nation be strong and positive without being too proud?

Question

Whether it is tall poppy syndrome or other reasons, many strong nations end up failing in many areas. We have seen this from Ancient Greece to today's societies.

How can a nation be strong and continue to prosper without getting too vain ane letting pride be their demise?

Answer 1

hello.
my English is very bad,but it will try to answer your question.
and I hope that you can understand to me.
the reasons so that a great empire falls are many.
1)one of the reasons is when it is very extensive east empire.
2)when a country is very good to live all go to,and the sobrepopulation comes,that he is fatal for a nation.
3)another reason is the bad organization,then always it is going to see a leader badly.
4)if we badly have in a single empire a president or leader or emperor,this debilitates coming mandates.
5)in Rome for example,their last emperors were terrible,and if much country is had that to direct this is catastrophic for a nation .
6)another thing that influences is if there are powerful people from outside who wish to end this empire.
I hope that you include/understand everything what to write to you,to be very difficult for my,and not been able to be very extensive nor to explain but by my English.
chao suerte.

Answer 2

Yes pride can have something to do with the failure of nations. Take the USA, a lot of people don't like them because they exercise their power way too often and for the wrong reasons.
For a strong nation to prosper they have to be strong but not show off or use bully tactics on other nations.

Answer 3

I don't think pride leads to the demise of a nation. Of the great empires in history, the main reason for their demise is they get fat and lazy. They rot from within by trying to get others to do their work for them.

Take Rome for instance. As time went on, they turned into a welfare state. They had too many people living off the fruits of others' labor (bread and circuses). When push came to shove, they were too weak to handle it for themselves and too poor to buy the work to be done.