Oh lord. Insult of insults today :rofl:

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16. ...and more and more globally disliked.

I'm not arguing the definition or its history, you must know that by now. This was a comment based on my working experience in Europe, Asia, Canada, and South America if that helps, even though it seems to me off point considering the lightness of the original comments. You can change the point to "accepted definition" but it doesn't change my experience. The number of times I have heard it questioned makes the math lean to the unusual probability that its acceptance is only as deep as people of other nations are forced to ingest, and surely you can see beyond mere history of the definition to the real issue, the United States in the present world perception. It's fairly clear to me that the US in the eyes of the world is very different than in the nineteenth or even twentieth centuries as you have quoted in comment. "American" exceptionalism is a cliché that doesn't reflect the combination of distrust, lost trust, lost naiveté, and even fear that is based on world changes, or on the other hand the joy found in thoughts of the demise of "demon America".

The accepted definition is neither here nor there since the rankling is only an itch you may not have noticed, but a festering itch is no comrade.