Literature Review
American Exceptionalism is common amongst most americans. Commonly mistaken for patriotism, American Exceptionalism takes patriotism and adds blinders to conflicting ideas about America. In this essay I will provide information backing my ideas around the overarching idea of disregarding contradictory statements; In addition, how that holds us back as a nation. This piece will be organized by building from the local idea to a grander scale and its impacts on greater society. My thesis is is american exceptionalism hindering most american’s abilities to
The mainstream idea of the topic at hand is tied in very closely to the way our nation used capitalism during the cold war. “the fight between Capitalism and Communism”(Donat 2013). Is how I was taught in public school. Rather than two nations having different ways of going about existing they labeled it a battle between two ways of existence thus creating a fear of the other side. As proof a Millennial blogger makes this statement “Socialism is death. Socialism kills motivation. Socialism kills individuality. Socialism kills growth. Socialism is hell on earth.”(Seunagal 2016). Although this particular blogpost is made about socialism it further proves my point of americans being hostile towards socialism to be considered even the “middle ground” of economic systems . “Economic freedom (capitalism, property rights), intellectual freedom (science and technology) and self-interest makes societies prosperous.”(Humphreys 1995). Pretty much the idea made for capitalism is having the freedom to innovate as you please with money as your incentive to better society. From a purely analytical perspective, capitalism’s free market leaves lots of room to make money but doesn’t do great distributing the funds evenly creating a gap of the rich and poor. “governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods” the main idea here is that you’re working to serve greater society. No personal freedoms are revoked; previously privately owned companies are run by the government. Again, from a purely analytical perspective, this models inherit traits has a stable economy and lots of social programs funded by the government creating a stable class.
The main source that inspired my research was Angela Davis’s Women, Class, Race. Angela Davis’s work gives you a lens of critical thinking developing around how women of color particularly black women are treated in modern times; not to mention all the events that occurred in the past leading up to every one of Davis’s statements a thesis backed by stories of black women everywhere. I believe this lens I just described is important to my piece in specific to see the view point i'm trying to set the scene for.
My other sources include a very direct observation to the intersections of the views of the majority of the population most importantly and least represented the lower socioeconomic class that has always been a fault of aggressive free markets giving you little representation makes you predisposed to fail. All as I continue to read the book I see new outlooks in once well knowledged fields; they become whole new stories once you acquire a new lens.
In conclusion, my sources are clear and concise with the action that needs to be taken. I would like to model their ways of speaking their minds towards the demands and the means into what I will be trying to say in my essay. I stand by my established thesis that American exceptionalism has skewed most of the nation's ability to see flaws in such things like the legislature or multi-national conflict is exclusively covered one sided. With my sources I will to the best of my abilities prove my thesis.
The mainstream idea of the topic at hand is tied in very closely to the way our nation used capitalism during the cold war. “the fight between Capitalism and Communism”(Donat 2013). Is how I was taught in public school. Rather than two nations having different ways of going about existing they labeled it a battle between two ways of existence thus creating a fear of the other side. As proof a Millennial blogger makes this statement “Socialism is death. Socialism kills motivation. Socialism kills individuality. Socialism kills growth. Socialism is hell on earth.”(Seunagal 2016). Although this particular blogpost is made about socialism it further proves my point of americans being hostile towards socialism to be considered even the “middle ground” of economic systems . “Economic freedom (capitalism, property rights), intellectual freedom (science and technology) and self-interest makes societies prosperous.”(Humphreys 1995). Pretty much the idea made for capitalism is having the freedom to innovate as you please with money as your incentive to better society. From a purely analytical perspective, capitalism’s free market leaves lots of room to make money but doesn’t do great distributing the funds evenly creating a gap of the rich and poor. “governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods” the main idea here is that you’re working to serve greater society. No personal freedoms are revoked; previously privately owned companies are run by the government. Again, from a purely analytical perspective, this models inherit traits has a stable economy and lots of social programs funded by the government creating a stable class.
The main source that inspired my research was Angela Davis’s Women, Class, Race. Angela Davis’s work gives you a lens of critical thinking developing around how women of color particularly black women are treated in modern times; not to mention all the events that occurred in the past leading up to every one of Davis’s statements a thesis backed by stories of black women everywhere. I believe this lens I just described is important to my piece in specific to see the view point i'm trying to set the scene for.
My other sources include a very direct observation to the intersections of the views of the majority of the population most importantly and least represented the lower socioeconomic class that has always been a fault of aggressive free markets giving you little representation makes you predisposed to fail. All as I continue to read the book I see new outlooks in once well knowledged fields; they become whole new stories once you acquire a new lens.
In conclusion, my sources are clear and concise with the action that needs to be taken. I would like to model their ways of speaking their minds towards the demands and the means into what I will be trying to say in my essay. I stand by my established thesis that American exceptionalism has skewed most of the nation's ability to see flaws in such things like the legislature or multi-national conflict is exclusively covered one sided. With my sources I will to the best of my abilities prove my thesis.