American exceptionalizm?

[Ron butters]

I thought it referred to the belief that the United States of Americs was superior to all other nations--Columbia uber Alles?

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On Feb 22, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> What's the phrase "American exceptionalism" all about?
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> I do not think it means what we think it means.
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/americanexceptionalism.htm
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> The notion of "American exceptionalism" became widely applied in the context of efforts to account for the weakness of working-class radicalism in the United States. The major question subsumed in the concept became why the United States is the only industrialized country which does not have a significant socialist movement or Labor party. That riddle has bedeviled socialist theorists since the late nineteenth century.
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> Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
> See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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