It will never cease to amaze me that some high school dropout located in a town of 5,000 people somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the U.S., who can hardly write grammatically correct in his or her own language, let alone to speak foreign languages, and who has never been anywhere but the closest "big city" of let's say 250,000 people, still proudly says that the best thing in the world is America and being American, but the Bulgarians find it so hard to appreciate a country and heritage of more than 1,300 years. If one lacks self-respect and pride, one cannot expect respect from others.  We are so eager to tell the world how ugly and bad Sofia is, and how the other European capitals are so much better; then it should not come as a surprise that foreigners would prefer to go and see indeed these other European capitals and dismiss Bulgaria as a place with nothing to see. It is not what one has that is important; it is what one does with it that matters.