I've known people like this, so I started thinking about their ethnicity. This is my no means a poll, but most of the braggarts I've met were Jewish. "So and So does This and That - Very Successful!" I've heard that one a lot. It makes me feel sorry for the Jewish person who is NOT successful in a worldly way.
A free weekly magazine called The Jewish Journal that is available for the taking in libraries and around town dedicates a space to all the Jewish people of accomplishment in history, to stroke ethnic- religious pride. It's paid-for advertising.
However, I've heard that Hungarians of every religious type bring up famous scientists and inventors in particular, to prove that they have their geniuses as a way of letting other people know they should not dismiss their own intelligence. Defensiveness mixed with ethnic pride!
I do tend to think of braggarts as insecure, and maybe Hungary, being a country that is more like David than the Giant Goliath of the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, has more to prove.
So far I have not encountered Hungarian braggarts here in the United States!
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