In Ancient Greece, for example, and I learned this from the historian Nell Irvin Painter, the Greeks thought they were better than the other people they knew about, but not because of some idea that they were innately superior.
Por ejemplo, en Antigua Grecia y aprendí esto del historiador Nell Irvin Painter que los griegos pensaban que eran mejores que las otras personas que conocían pero no por la idea de que fueran innatamente superiores.