• Halce@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    OPs question is not about whether you can objectively define that a country is ‘’great’’ but rather what is it that constitutes their country as ‘’greatest’’ or exceptional in the (subjective) minds of many Americans nowadays?

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      3 years ago

      OPs question is not about whether you can objectively define that a country is ‘’great’’

      No, but its formulation seems to imply that there is such a definition, that the US obviously don’t satisfy it but that a lot of americans mistakenly believe that it does.

      Also, feels a bit strange that you address that response to the one comment (ok, one of the two ) that address that point rather than to any of the ones who assume that the US are objectively not a great country.

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        No, but its formulation seems to imply that there is such a definition, that the US obviously don’t satisfy it but that a lot of americans mistakenly believe that it does.

        The definition doesn’t exist, but yet, yes, many Americans do believe it still.