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		silverquiet on Aug 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The upstream cause of the youth mental health cris... I assume nearly every culture believes that they are uniquely superlative in some way though; ironically this seems like a highly conserved quality of human psychology. If anything, a lot of the praise of America seems to be the federation of culture; I’ve heard it said the that it is not one country, but fifty different ones.

anon291 on Aug 4, 2024 [–]

I mean that's totally fair. Most countries and cultures are exceptional in some way. That does not deny american exceptionalism at all.

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