[lbo-talk] Obama's ancestors had slaves

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 3 10:07:43 PST 2007


--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> Russians do this a lot too you know. Probably
> follows
> from being a big, powerful country.
>

[WS:] Yeah, Poles do it as well, but with a slightly different twis, since theirs is a rather non-remarkable little pissant country (to quote Richard Millhous Nixon). Their exceptionalism takes basically three different forms: messianistic (popular mainly in the 19th century and in conncetion with WW2), the ramparts of Christianity/Europe that keep the Eastebetween East and West.

I think most countries have developed similar self-righteous tripe in one form or another. Yuck! It would be interesting to do a quick survey of other country exceptionalism myths - anyone, please?

Wojtek

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