Why is America exceptional? It is simple really even if
people do not realize it. Let us begin with the answer to the question.
Why America is Exceptional: America is exceptional because we
seek to correct our mistakes. We do not want to make the same mistakes
ever again. Our rule under a monarchy was a mistake and we broke free and
designed a Constitution to do so. Slavery was another major mistake and
the country was washed in blood during the civil war. Now we are
currently trying to make up for segregation. As such, a dialogue is
continuously trying to be brokered. However it seems that America is
losing that dialogue due to it losing what allows the country to be exceptional.
So what is that component?
The key ingredient: To remain exceptional we have to keep
learning our history. But this must be done in an objective way without
biases to understand the context of why things happened the way they did.
Basically, no opinion, just the facts presented in a clear, concise and
understandable way. We want to achieve what Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.
espoused, that we must be judged by the content of our character, and that our
progress and how we go forward with our lives is our character.
Conclusion: Our schools are no longer just
giving objective facts. We do not learn the whole Constitution or even
how it is applied to our everyday lives. All we know from schooling is
that things are bad, that people caused everything and we do not even see their
motivations or their motivations are presented in such a way as to blame a
single group for the horror and oppression caused. That is not objective
history. We do not judge people by their character because schools are
not equipped to teach students to judge and think for themselves like they were
in the past. Unless this is corrected, we will face the same problems and
the same bloodshed again. Once that occurs, America falls as we will have
completely lost whatever has made us as a country exceptional.
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