by Howard Zinn
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
mitworld.mit.edu
March 14, 2005
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Americans have long embraced a notion of superiority, claims Howard Zinn. Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony described establishing “a city on a hill,” to serve the world as a beacon of liberty. So far, so good. But driving this sense of destiny, says Zinn, was an assumption of divine agency—“an association between what the government does and what God approves of.” And too frequently, continues Zinn, Americans have invoked God to expand “into someone else’s territory, occupying and dealing harshly with people who resist occupation.”
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The belief in national exceptionalism is hardly unique to Americans. It is common in many countries and cultures. What makes American exceptionalism so dangerous is that it has a huge military and economic empire backing it up.