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does any other country spew such jingoistic scary nationalism? (Original Post) cali Aug 2012 OP
Some do. Iran is kind of into it, I think. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2012 #1
North Korea? Lucy Goosey Aug 2012 #2

Lucy Goosey

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2. North Korea?
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 11:19 PM
Aug 2012

Really, though, as a Canadian, I've always found this open talk of American exceptionalism to be really weird and off-putting. I mean, does someone like Romney literally think that Americans arethe only people in the world who can do good and important things? That's not only offensive, it's demonstrably false.

(random side note: I set my spellcheck to Canadian English, which apparently doesn't recognize "exceptionalism" as a word. Hee! 'We're not number one, but we're okay with that!')

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