American exceptionalism
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German professor Sieglinde Lemke argues that the Statue of Liberty represents how the US sees itself as a unique nation and its mission to spread its values across the world.[1]
American exceptionalism is the belief that
Unique nation
The US started from the American Revolutionary War. Martin Lipset calls it the "first new nation".[3] It developed an American set of ideas (Americanism) based on republicanism, democracy, laissez-faire (no government interference in economy), liberty, equality, individualism (importance of individual).[4]
Unique mission
Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg address (1863), that Americans have a responsibility to make sure that the "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
American Exceptionalism Media
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Newspaper reporting the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii in 1898. American exceptionalism has fueled American expansion through the ideology of manifest destiny.
Related pages
- American decline
- American imperialism
- Americanism (ideology)
- Americanization
- Americentrism
- Anti-Americanism
- Juche (nationalist North Korean state ideology)
- Sonderweg (German exceptionalism)
- Yamato-damashii (Japanese spirit)
- Nihonjinron (Japanese uniqueness)
References
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- ↑ American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword. Seymour Martin Lipset. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. 1996. p. 18. .
- ↑ Seymour Martin Lipset, The first new nation (1963).
- ↑ Lipset, American Exceptionalism, pp. 1, 17–19, 165–74, 197