Reply #14: I agree

[LeftishBrit]

same goes for any country. I often say I am against exceptionalism for or against a country: blind support for everything that a country does is just the other side of the coin from its opposite: bogeynation-creation. And turning your own country into a bogeynation is no better than turning anywhere else into a bogeynation.

Being non-American myself, I tend to notice anti-American exceptionalism most commonly from *non*-Americans, but it is interesting that it occurs within America as well. But you get the same in the UK - even if you exclude the pro-independence Scottish, Welsh and Irish Nationalists from this equation, you still get the extremes of 'Britain is always right!'; 'Britannia rule the waves!' on the one side and 'Britain is always wrong'; 'Britain is a degenerate/fascist/corrupt country' on the other. Sometimes it's essentially the same people - a certain type of jingoist gets disillusioned because Britain is clearly no longer Ruling the Waves, and turns into a reverse-jingoist constantly attacking Britain for its 'degeneracy'.

(edited for spelling)