Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24241449-20131204014043/@comment-10207438-20131207021600

No one race is better than the other, The Altmer may be descended from the Aedra, but so is every other race(except argonians and possibly khajiit)

they are arrogant, not just by human standards but by mer standards as well, Altmer means high ones in merish because they think high of themselves, not because anyone named them that, the fact that they call themselves the high ones is proof of their arrogance.

They are not Omnicidal maniacs, only the thalmor are.

they do not learn things faster or better than any other race, but because of the way the ehlnofey split they were on the side that had better access to arcane knowledge, and the others were on the side that had to struggle in the wilderness.

this again does not make any race better than the others, but your evidence as to 'why they're better' is just that they were lucky when the races split, and that they believe themselves better because of it.