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Do you know what "American Exceptionalism" means? What do you think is wrong with that characterisation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

by tome 13y ago

Do you know what "American Exceptionalism" means? What do you think is wrong with that characterisation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

mikeash 13y ago
Approximately all of it is wrong. The USA is exceptional precisely because it's the most powerful, and nothing more.
- tome 13y ago
  That's what you're claming American think, or that's what you think?
  - mikeash 13y ago
    That's what I think. Many Americans in my experience believe the "American exceptionalism" described there, in terms of the country being uniquely classless, or free, or whatever.