Not in the US. We're always newing and improving shite and that includes arrogance. The more educated someone becomes the more sure they are they know what they're talking about. It completely escapes them that the books they were taught from originated in the 1800s. Oh but they know what they know by God!

They will pontificate until the cows come home and be completely oblivious to the fact that anyone left in audience at any given moment mentally checked out long ago.