exceptionalism

American exceptionalism is the suggestion that the USA is better than other developed countries because it is intrinsically unique.

Like Obama said, you may believe in American Exceptionalism like the British believe in British Exceptionalism, or the French believe in Francophone Exceptionalism, but it's not unique.

Wagner's operas can't be separated from the notion of German exceptionalism that laid the groundwork for Nazi ideology.

There is no sense setting up a strawman about a topic, exceptionalism, which the parent did not even raise or mention.

That article is genuinely terrible -- it's the worst of hacker exceptionalism coupled with an embedded false equivalence between social rejection and rape.

What's interesting is how friendly cultures take exceptionalism at face value.

If you want to call that American exceptionalism, so be it.

I think it is a side effect of Japanese exceptionalism and various Nihonjinron bullshit that continues to be a big deal for the Japanese.

But as a general rule to combat obesity, that's probably not the way to go (we often get the same personal non-exceptionalism in economic debates).

That's the Japanese style of exceptionalism.

Maybe you are invoking American exceptionalism.

I have been under the impression that looking to other countries for guidance on our social policy is bad and contrary to the notion of exceptionalism.

Hacker News is full of silly "programming exceptionalism", but programming is not all that fundamentally different from any other vocation.

This kind of American exceptionalism is just as bad as the "we're the best at everything!" nonsense you see in American politics.

"Yes, there are some people who come here with no desire to stay, but they have been in the minority since around 1492." Good old fashion American exceptionalism.

Also the author has a slight notion of american exceptionalism, that something works in the USA is by no means a measurement to go by and say: "Hey you should do this also, it will be working great!" Some detailed research about markets, employees, laws and how to adapt them would do every European government better than simply trying to copy America.

Being proud of achievements wasn't the bit I was labelling American Exceptionalism.

I understand the impulse behind American Exceptionalism, but it looks to me like a recipe for gridlocked ideology, because instead of evidence from other countries, one can only argue using abstract theories...