Exceptionalism dates back to the early time that people recognized America as the new world. Its base was on rejecting. The new comers started to reject the systems which they had problems with. They rejected many things from the Great Britain. The ruling system and the beliefs were those they wanted to change and have the new ones in the new land. They were told repeatedly that they had been chosen people and had had holy missions across the sea. Chosen; they were different, so by such idea whatever they did was exceptional to themselves. The idea made them think be better than whatever and whoever they had left behind and it spread and stretched all through the American history. They paid to obtain what they wanted. Most of their achievements were by their revolution and then the wars that they had. Wars had been important part of the American history. Their differences appeared in their identities little by little. Being exceptional happened through rejection and attraction or attaching and detaching. It rejected the ideas and systems they had left behind and attracted what helped to flourish their achievements. There were creation and imitation together. America was the land that those who wanted to reject their backgrounds could move there hoping to gain something different that they had wished for. The hopes did not work for everyone the same. Different groups by different origins, ethnicities, social classes and gender could not achieve the same accomplishments and fortunes.
Many were those who wanted not to be in where they had been, like immigrants from Ireland. The combination of different people from different backgrounds and different ambitions lay across the country. Anywhere they went on the vast land they started to construct and build what they needed to have, since they had no other choice to survive. Most of them could not return, so they tried to make what they wished for themselves. Naturally other people or countries became rivals. For example the political leaders wanted to prove that they could manage everything themselves perfectly apart from the monarchial ruling system of England and other countries. The other groups and classes of the society like labors, blacks and women tried to gain promotions, better situations of life and existence. They were all wheels and gears to move the country forward to achieve the goals. Various movements happened along with the progress and through the actions and reactions within a century or so they could develop the country and make a lot of things they wanted real. That is the human effort which can make things real and in the US the immigrants had to work more to do it sooner, so it was a kind of exceptional development happening in short time comparing the other countries and civilizations which spend long times to be strong and solid. It was true for Japan as well after the World War II and all the nation were together to rebuild their country. It can be considered as exceptional efforts. The Americans had struggles, clashes and challenges in their history; revolution, resistances and wars led the country to economic, industrial, cultural and political improvements and a number of small colonies changed to be one of the world's superpowers. They tried to spread their values across the world. Being exceptional as they believed strengthened their confidence to consider other cultures, systems, beliefs or anything which is non-American inferior to their own. Assimilation has been one solution to them and if it was not successful, more clashes and struggles would happen worldwide. The Americans have tried to keep their superiorities in many fields and exceptionalism meant being superior in any fields of being American and the power to import the American values taken from the world back to anywhere they wish across the world. People choose what they import as different products, but sometimes they have to. The cultural and political products are of those that sometimes are imported with no choice and it can not be taken as exchanging. The question is how much and how long they can continue the trend of exporting and importing?
Many were those who wanted not to be in where they had been, like immigrants from Ireland. The combination of different people from different backgrounds and different ambitions lay across the country. Anywhere they went on the vast land they started to construct and build what they needed to have, since they had no other choice to survive. Most of them could not return, so they tried to make what they wished for themselves. Naturally other people or countries became rivals. For example the political leaders wanted to prove that they could manage everything themselves perfectly apart from the monarchial ruling system of England and other countries. The other groups and classes of the society like labors, blacks and women tried to gain promotions, better situations of life and existence. They were all wheels and gears to move the country forward to achieve the goals. Various movements happened along with the progress and through the actions and reactions within a century or so they could develop the country and make a lot of things they wanted real. That is the human effort which can make things real and in the US the immigrants had to work more to do it sooner, so it was a kind of exceptional development happening in short time comparing the other countries and civilizations which spend long times to be strong and solid. It was true for Japan as well after the World War II and all the nation were together to rebuild their country. It can be considered as exceptional efforts. The Americans had struggles, clashes and challenges in their history; revolution, resistances and wars led the country to economic, industrial, cultural and political improvements and a number of small colonies changed to be one of the world's superpowers. They tried to spread their values across the world. Being exceptional as they believed strengthened their confidence to consider other cultures, systems, beliefs or anything which is non-American inferior to their own. Assimilation has been one solution to them and if it was not successful, more clashes and struggles would happen worldwide. The Americans have tried to keep their superiorities in many fields and exceptionalism meant being superior in any fields of being American and the power to import the American values taken from the world back to anywhere they wish across the world. People choose what they import as different products, but sometimes they have to. The cultural and political products are of those that sometimes are imported with no choice and it can not be taken as exchanging. The question is how much and how long they can continue the trend of exporting and importing?
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