Why do we in the U.S.revel in fallacies of "false uniqueness"--even claiming it is a

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special "divine blessing"? I believe it was within a preview of the current American Experience series on PBS (or perhaps Dr. Gates DNA study of Americans documentary series on PBS) the proud claim was made, "The U.S. is unique in the world in that we are all immigrants. Even Native Americans migrated here." Obviously, the same could be said of virtually every nation of the world with the possible exception of whatever area of Africa was the original point of origin of Homo sapiens. So why do we like to pretend in this way when deep down we know that we are fooling ourselves?
 
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