Universidad de Santiago de Chile Facultad de Humanidades Departamento de Lingüística Licenciatura en Educación en Inglés American Exceptionalism The United States of America is a country placed in north america, just between Canada and Mexico. This country has its bases on the British Puritans settlement in 1620 and, since they where a religious group that thought they were selected by god and America was the promised land, they started an expansion process which hasn’t fished yet. First just to get the territory they have in america (the 52 states), and second to spread their economic, religious and political way of doing things. This expansion process had its purpose on the believe that the unitedstatian were special (different from the rest of the world). It means that they where superior so they had the right and the divine obligation to look after other “weak” countries, even by force if it was necessary. For example, with the excuse of being ordered by God they expanded all over what U.S. is now, by means of killing and massacring native american indians and mexican people without thinking if they were violating their culture or just breaking their systems (in order to get the Napoleon´s territory separated from the colonies by the Mississippi River and what now Texas is respectively). Another good example is what George Bush II did to some middle-east countries during his government period, all supported by what God had told to him (as in the case of president McKinley and the taking of the Philippines). Apart of this, as they are special (because they still believe that), they are not judged in the same way other countries are. They have refused to sign many international treaties because “the U.S. goverment considers itself exempt from legal and moral standars accepted by other nations in the world.” The fact that americans were selected by God, that some U.S. presidents have been told to take control over other countries and communities by him, that they are the most perfect and powerful country and that they think