American Exceptionalism

The Greatest Country in the world? Growing up in the United States, Americans are always told that the red, white, and blue is the greatest nation in the world. Americans beam with pride, at every sporting event from little kids baseball to professional football, as the national anthem is played. In 2011 a survey reported that 80% of Americans think it’s the greatest country in the world. Is America the greatest country in the world (American Exceptionalism)? Was it ever the greatest country? To be the greatest country in the world, the country needs to be defined by the contributions that a nation has made to mankind and the world. A nation’s generosity and ideas that help shape human race, play a big part in making a great nation. America,
Each one is set up to make sure that none of the others have too much power. That being said, this can have its drawbacks specifically when change needs to occur. This affects the needs of the public when certain polices need to be adopted such as: welfare, unemployment insurance and health care. European countries on the other hand, take little time to adopt these types of policies. American policies have to go through an internally divided Congress, a process which could take several months, possibly years, and sometimes the policy might be forgotten. If, and that is a large if, it gets through the legislative branch, it can then hopefully be signed into law by the executive branch. After all that time, it can then be run through the judicial branch to make sure it falls in line with the American Constitution. The same constitution, which hasn't been changed since 1992, when Congress voted on an Amendment that was put off since the Constitution was put into place in the year 1789. When a country makes it strenuous to change for the better or worse, how can it make the contributions necessary, when it is limited and slow in making a decision in the first
Now all these discriminations were in the past and certainly don't affect America today, right? Even in todays world women and minorities are often faced with the glass ceiling. The glass ceiling is a barrier stopping job advancement, mostly affecting women and members of minorities. On top of that, in the recent debates in the 2016 election, several times Donald Trump has lashed out at several minorities in this country. Discrimination runs thick in America’s history all the way up to present day. Is this the contributions America wants to contribute to the human