American exceptionalism
ideology holding the United States as unique among nations; facet of nationalism in the United States
American exceptionalism is the belief that
Unique nation
changeThe 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
changeAbraham 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."
Related pages
change- 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
change- ↑ Winfried Fluck; Donald E. Pease; John Carlos Rowe (2011). Re-framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies. University Press of New England. p. 207. ISBN 9781611681901.
- ↑ 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