No. They, generally, don't consider themselves Canadian either.
I would have though that every country already thinks that it is exceptional by it's populace...
...why else do people cheer for their homelands during the Olympics, etc. ??
I find BC people to be the least humble. Pretentious hippy ****s for the most part. Then again, I've only been to the Van area.
The nicest people in Canada are in the Atlantic East - generally just all around great people - people in Ontario are generally very nice, but in the bigger cities can be a little aloof but that's just part of being humble and unassuming. People in the West, other than BC, are fiercely Canadian and very proud of who they are and what they bring to the country, and people in BC are one of God's experiments with the ravages of drugs on the human brain.
Agreed. I've spent time in NB and NS. They're great places. People are extremely homely - a bit two faced - but extremely nice. It's a shame what's happened to that area in the last 50 or so years.
I think the Idea of exceptionalism tends to devalue other countrys in favor for your own.But I think it's important to be content with ones home if he or she chooses to live there and I believe that loving ones country and your fellow neighbor is an important aspect in day to day life. So all in all I think My country of vietnam is exceptional but I also think my new home and all it's chubsters are exceptional too
Mexico as "exceptional" ? :2rofll: :lamo
Mexico as a nation has an inferiority complex.
A Vietnamese communist in Montana - now that's an interesting turn of events!!
Mexico as "exceptional" ? :2rofll: :lamo
Mexico as a nation has an inferiority complex.
You would make a great diplomat
People who need to ridicule other nations to make themselves feel better demonstrate a bit of an inferiority complex, as far as I can see.
Probably explains why President Obama didn't offer me the job as Secretary of State.
I find BC people to be the least humble. Pretentious hippy ****s for the most part. Then again, I've only been to the Van area.
Agreed. I've spent time in NB and NS. They're great places. People are extremely homely - a bit two faced - but extremely nice. It's a shame what's happened to that area in the last 50 or so years.
Hello everyone!
It's par for the course that big and powerful countries think they're exceptional. Britain, France, America, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, and other powerful and important nations all think they're the best.
But what about Albania? What about Zimbabwe? Or Honduras, or Laos?
Should these nations, like the great powers, think of themselves as exceptional, a cut above the rest?
Why, or why not?
I voted #4.
Exceptionalisim in respect to geopolitics is something very different than thinking your country produces exceptionally beautiful women or is exceptionally clean.
It means that your country is so far ahead of/above the rest that the normal rules don't apply, it means that the international community should make exceptions for you because of your greatness.
I don't think such inflated opinions of the national self hold a great deal of water.
We've all seen (at least in a history book) what happens when a great nation begins to consider itself exceptional and starts running roughshod over the community of nations.
In a nutshell, the international community bands together, firebombs the upstart's cities, and occupies that nation for 40 or 50 years.
No single part is as great as the whole.
Not even the United States.
No. They're all ****.But what about Albania? What about Zimbabwe? Or Honduras, or Laos?
Should these nations, like the great powers, think of themselves as exceptional, a cut above the rest?
an interesting change that's for sure but I love this country I even saw my first eagle a couple of weeks ago I grew up being told your national bird was a rooster
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