Why does nearly every American subscribe to the dichotomy of America is always right and all others are wrong?

Question

Has the ability to perform critical analysis disappeared?

Answer 1

Yep, but the better question would be when was it actually used ?

Answer 2

I don't think we do. However, we are usually right because all we ask is that people allow us to live free. When others impose upon our rights, we fight back.

We give billions of dollars every year to other countries in charity, yet those same countries tell us that we are evil because we have so much. See, they won't be happy until we are poor like them. They have an elite class that lives like kings by taking from the average citizen who struggles to get by.

We have rich people here, but anyone who works hard can become rich. It is not limited to those who are born into money or royalty.

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Answer 3

I think it's because we are such a big power in the world today. I guess you could say we're a bit "big headed". I think it depends on your values and morals too. As a country there is a set of generalized morals/values/rights that we like to attribute to ourselves, like patriotism, religion, freedom despite ethnic/racial background, everyone's equal, and the freedom of speech and the rest of the rights we have. What I'm getting at is that we have so many freedoms and so much that we can do that others can't that we see any other culture that's not as liberal as ours as bad or wrong. Like some of the traditions in Africa and women having to cover their face and remain virgins until marriage or die. Things like that seem wrong to us because we are free to do those things. In these other cultures it is tradition and part of their values but we see it as wrong because it's not like ours. But I guess that will never change.

Answer 4

Yes.