Pride is a good thing

Should a country be proud of being a charity for its people? Or should it be proud of enabling its people to rise out of the humiliating and degrading mindset?

But indigence is a vice, sir. You may be poor, and yet retain your natural pride; but, when you are indigent, you retain nothing. An indigent man is not driven out of society with a stick, but with a broom, which is far more humiliating. Yet society is justified, for the indigent man is the first to degrade himself. - Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

We hear things such as, “I am a poor man” or “we are a poor / 3rd world / developing country”. The latter is the collective for the former. People that have no pride in their capabilities or ability to stand on their own feet without needing a helping hand have lost their sense of pride. Not wishing to face the indigent soul that he is, he builds a facade of faux pride around him. He talks about how great his country has been, and what wonderful, brave kings and queens have lived in it.