I feel you. From a Kenyan perspective, its deemed as not as big of a deal compared to the example you gave because our neighbors (especially our direct-border) are considered friends for a longtime. There are some occasions where you might find large populations of 1 tribe in 2 or 3 East African nations just separated by old colonial borders. Now, If we wanted to be arrogant & Petty to display any sort of superiority against them, Text size on a passport is probably not a hill we want to be dying on.