Twisted American Exceptionalism Leads to Criminal Behavior on a Global Scale

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Mon, 06/27/2011 - 12:00am
American Exceptionalism and global crime

When we anthropomorphize nation-states and endow them with unmitigated self-expression we have a succinct definition of American exceptionalism, which is one part nationalism and another chauvanistic individualism. Tom Becker reads an article from Alter-Net that explores the history of national exceptionalism and how its American variant is, well, exceptional among them.

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