Is It Possible for an Entire Culture to Have Low Self-Esteem?

In a word: Yes.

Iran bans The Economist over map
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHERAN, Iran

Iran has banned The Economist magazine for describing the Persian Gulf as merely "the Gulf" in a map published in the latest edition, state television reported late Wednesday.

It is the second time in two years that Iran has prohibited a publication of international repute for failing to use the term "Persian Gulf" in its maps. In November 2004, it banned the National Geographic atlas when a new edition appeared with the term "Arabian Gulf" in parenthe

How humiliating!
(Note: I don't see Costa Rica getting their panties in a bunch over The Gulf of "Mexico"....)