Yes, America is exceptional
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Visitors to the US see a distinct American character
Even those viewing the United States from the outside have identified the ways in which American character is exceptional.
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The Argument
French traveller Alexis de Tocqueville noted in his travelogue of the United States that Americans were exceptional compared to Europeans. Americans were, for de Tocqueville, more concerned with their nation’s future than other people. Americans “care about their country’s interests as though they were their own," and "feel for their homeland a feeling analogous to what a man feels for his family." They were more concerned with matters of law and government, de Tocqueville believed, than his own countrymen.[1] Democratic society, de Tocqueville argued, had created a new and exceptional connection between the people and their government.
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Premises
[P1] Even those observing the United States from outside have identified its exceptionalism.