It is hard for you to understand well-off people with a colonialism background.
His mother was Yugoslavian, and his father was Egyptian and was an engineer if I am not mistaken.
There is an enormous opportunity gap in third-world countries, which is the root of his entitlement. Being son of a well educated and well-off father gave him some sense of entitlement.
He had a comedic rant about being rich and able to afford to buy a 25.000 USD jeep with cash. Inferiority complex could be rooted back to "Lawrence of Arabia," where Omar Shariff was steaming about how they were civilized when Europeans were eating raw meat.
So, they kind of have a `you may milk and dominate us, but we were great once upon a time` mentality.
As a Turk, although we have never been a colony—quite the contrary, we used to be an imperial power—I observe this mentality all around: "You can't patronize us; we demand respect."
This is puzzling for a Westerner, it is like a bug shouting out, `Hey I am a force of nature`
When in fact for an American, that guy is from some shitty middle east country, that an American has zero interest in knowing more about.
Poor Nasser has that kind of inferiority complex that looks ridiculous in a civilized Western country.
