I'm pretty confident every child that has gone to a family gathering or event has had this happen. A relative (usually a Aunt or Uncle) and your parents start a conversation between one another and it ultimately becomes a conversation about you the children. In this conversation your parents and the relative basically begin to "brag" about each others kid(s). As a kid don't you find this absolutely annoying to constantly be compared to your cousin and or relative  and expected to either live up to there expectations or out do them? And don't you just want to say something (well give them a piece of your own mind), well for me yes I did and I spoke out of turn about it. So here's the story when I was about 15 my uncle came up to me and says" So what are your grades like", naturally I answered saying B's mixed with a few A's and a C" then my uncle replies "your cousin ____ has all A's you should study harder" now here's my reply " I don't give two S***'s  about what kind of grades he gets, why even ask me about my grades if you just wanna talk about his?" naturally it got really quiet after that was said and I got a beating with the belt when I got home. Was it worth it in the end to me yes it was and to this day I don't get asked questions by my family that basically compares their kids to me.

Now my question to you all is

Do you hate it when you are compared to or get bragged to about a relative or cousin?
And when your being compared how does it make you feel?,(also share some of your stories if you have some that  you feel comfortable sharing.)

Luckily for me, this does not happen very often. However, I do have some relatives who decide that it just happens to be a good idea to share the successes of their kids by sending a letter to everyone else in the family about how amazingly their kids are doing. It frustrates me to no end. I mean, they could just say that everyone is doing well, but it is clearly a letter defining each individual achievement of the kids. Such as: Straight A's, Made high honor roll, got national recognition, got a prestigious award, got accepted into this nice college, etc. It is horrible, and it kind of makes me feel worse sometimes. I really wish they would just stop, but in the end, it does not matter too much, and their achievements do not seem as glaringly impressive when you actually talk to them (they sound rather unintelligible in person). Anyways, sorry to hear you were beaten just for speaking out against something frustrating. I empathize with you in this situation. Naturally, I do not feel like speaking out against them because it will not do me any good. They are already extremely stubborn people, and they do not like me all that much to begin with, and we have to see them every family reunion. It would be even more difficult to deal with them if I ended up causing a metaphorical rift between us. 

I only have one aunt who does that.  She lives in Malaysia and she brags how she has 3 houses there and 10 in the states.  How she travels around the world.  Two years ago she gave my cousin Alysa 2 weddings one in Malaysia with 11,000 guests and another in the state with 15,000 guests.....  Oh and she complains how poor she is!!!! >.<  I don't read her letters anymore safe to say.

The members of my family don't really compare one another, or try to say that one of us is better than the other. Pretty much all they have to say is uplifting stuff about us and that's it, although occasionally I get compared to my brother bombchu. (But even then it's nothing bad)

I have a couple of relatives that do that. Not in terms of grades (I don't get great grades, I don't get bad grades either though) Mostly in other stuff.
Such as social skills. I have a cousin that is insanely popular, and my aunts/uncles are always telling me stuff such as "Why aren't you as popular as your cousin?" or "You should get out and meet new people like your cousin" I dislike it a lot. I am who I am, he is who he is, you can't make me be like him or vice versa.

Doesnt happen to me much cuz i dont have much family near me.

maguc : I know were your coming from, my cousin is really "book" smart but he doesn't have very good social skills (which is one of the only things I can basically out do him in) and I agree with you 100%, you are who you are and it's wrong for your family to try and model or make you like/similar to a relative.

To be honest I find it really stupid and wrong of family's to try and basically breed competition between relatives in the ways described here.. I hate it, and it really only makes one distance themselves from their family(relatives) and it really does hurt relations with the relative. 

I deal with this all of the time. It's quite annoying to the point that I want to bang my head to the wall multiple times and not stop. Can't everyone realize that every child is different? People like to brag a lot to others to show how "lucky" they are which is really annoying to begin with. How would they feel if we compare them to others better than them? That would turn out to be a nightmare and yet, when children get compared to others, it's perfectly fine. It's never ever reciprocal and fair. 

Wow, really guys? I didn't know there were so many members with this problem. I don't have this problem at all. But this is probably because my aunt and uncle only have children younger than my age, around the age from my little sister and brother