When you randomly make a topic with the name of the country, you can expect this. When people come online bragging about there country and how much better they are, I come in and knock them down a peg or two.
You do not knock down any pegs at all. You are just wasting your time arguing with people over the internet.
I have learned that you can NEVER, EVER change someone's view on one's country or another thing over the internet, people are just too damn thick-headed.
That being said, YOU are the one that prolonged the argument.
back on-topic
a fellow american once said "let there be light" and there was light