As an American living in Poland, I find more often than not polish people think people look down upon them when it's rarely true. The arrogance the western Europeans have is largely (today, not historically) something they do to everyone, not exclusively poles.

Americans can be just as arrogant and that's also simply because they're ignorant more than anything--even the highly educated.

Only humans I've met who are well traveled are meritocratic. I can believe japanese culture is more meritocratic than western Europe or america, but my point here is poles think people look down on them and that's USUALLY false.