What does everyone think about American Exceptionalism?

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The idea of American Exceptionalism seems to emphasize the concept that America is a uniquely superior nation, one who's history is far different then that of other nations. I've noticed that another tendency in American Exceptionalism is a tendency to gloss over negative events that have occurred in the United States, such as the mass genocide of Native Americans, slavery and the Jim Crow laws. I'm revolted that some people do not acknowledge America's faults and claim it is a nation that is more exceptional then any other. I lament the fact that more people are not honest about their nation's history and will gloss over any mistake it's made to extoll its virtues instead? What do you guys think about American Exceptionalism? I see it as a weapon that has the potential to make citizens delusional about the truth of their country.

Every country feels exeptionalism to at least some extent. Why should America be an exception?

I'm not saying it's okay. The "we're better/different than the rest!" feeling just something that a lot of countries experience, I find, and it's been present through all of world history. It's human nature to feel exceptional, and to gloss over evidence that suggest that "you suck". We also see this in Asperger extremists. So don't be too shocked by it.

The term “American Exceptionalism” isn’t as old as people imagine, and the Founders didn’t coin it. Stalin did. When the American Communist Jay Lovestone informed him, in 1929, that America’s working class wouldn’t be joining the party, the Soviet dictator rejected what he called this “heresy of American Exceptionalism.”

The term was redefined a few decades later and didn’t catch on immediately: Before the mid-1990s the term appeared in national publications fewer than 500 times. In 1996, sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset used it to explain why the U.S. is an “outlier” when compared with the rest of the world. Noting that “various seemingly contradictory aspects of American society are intimately related”—religiosity co-existed with individualism, optimism with high crime rates—he described America’s uniqueness as “a mixed blessing.”

As a Presidential candidate Donald Trump didn’t care for the term. He told a group of Republicans in 2015, he thought it impolite: “I don’t want to say, ‘We’re exceptional. we’re more exceptional.’ Because essentially we’re saying, ‘We’re more outstanding than you . . .’ ”

I see no reason whatsoever to "take exception" to the phrase "American Exceptionalism", unless it is used as a sad excuse for mediocrity. People having difficulty with the term because of its arrogance is one thing, but to make excuses for moral relativism and mediocrity is far more appalling . . .

Some people are just guided by their emotions and ignore logic. I don't know why, just that it happens. Perhaps they are doing that to try to protect themselves from the ugly truth.

Our labor colonies have learned good things from us, and now (really, really) want to go on with their lives, independently.

I believe that American Exceptionalism exists. A lot of innovation that has shaped the modern world has come from The States. I worry that this is changing With the election of Trump it seems that people do not value the skills that are necessary to be exceptional.

In the US schoolchildren are taught that the US won the war of 1812.

The U.S. is now actually nearly a FULL-fledged «communist» nation (and has been for decades). Many «documentaries» regarding this with over-whelming amounts of damning evidence have already been produced.

I think there's a sentiment of America being superior as a result of our history of trying to be different than everyone (ie. the Europeans and English). Now that sentiment is starting to fade, at least in most of the Blue states and I can't really speak for the Red states.

What do I think about it? I don't think you want to know.

Try to remember a time when you got violently sick and were hunched over the toilet bowl, thinking you were going to die, or worried that you weren't going to die so your misery would end. Imagine having a mouth full of wriggling live worms and insects and being forced to slowly chew and swallow them. Imagine having leeches all over your body feasting on your blood. Imagine walking very slowly through a thick patch of thorn bushes stark naked while experiencing a migraine headache.

That basically sums up to what I think about it. I told you that you didn't want to know.