AMERICAN IS A RELIGION, NOT A RACE:

To speak of an "exceptional culture" would be a pleonasm; national cultures are unique by construction. Nonetheless some cultures may be radically exceptional. Unlike all the other nations of the world, America's Exceptionalism rests on a political culture informed by the biblical idea of covenant - not on common language, race, borders, or history. That is why the US emerged as the survivor out of the 20th century while the ethnocentric cultures of Europe plunged into mutual destruction.

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