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The Last Word: Assignment 2 for tomorrow

Consider : Is America the “best” country, or somehow different or better than other nations?.

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The Last Word: Assignment 2 for tomorrow

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  1. Consider: Is America the “best” country, or somehow different or better than other nations? "How about that senator from Texas, Ted Cruz. He gets a hold of the microphone on the floor of the Senate and he starts yakking for 21 hours. I'm telling you, that government shutdown certainly looks pretty good now, doesn't it?" –David Letterman "Breaking Bad" airs its final episode on Sunday. It's about a chemistry teacher who has cancer and starts making meth to help cover his medical bills and provide for his family. Or as Republicans call that, a legitimate alternative to Obamacare." –Jay Leno "President Obama is now making a case for raising the debt limit. He said that raising the debt limit does not increase debt. And, you know, I have to defer to the president on this one because when it comes to increasing the debt, Obama knows what he's talking about." –Jay Leno "Russian President Vladimir Putin just revealed he may run for a fourth term in 2018. In fact, he already came up with a few campaign posters. One says, 'I will put middle-class families first — on bus to Siberia.'" –Jimmy Fallon"Another Putin poster said, 'Putin in 2018, whether you vote or not.'" –Jimmy Fallon The Last Word: Assignment 2 for tomorrow

  2. American Political Culture AP Government and Politics Chapter 4

  3. The sources of American political culture • Where do most Americans learn what it means to be an “American”? • What has taken the place of the family in many cases? • How did our history influence the development of our unique PC? • Protection of Rights • Distrust of authority • Peaceful transitions of power • Religious diversity/separation from government

  4. American political culture • What is “political culture?” • What are the unique aspects of American political culture? • Liberty • Equality • Democracy • The Rule of Law • Individualism (unity?) • Diversity • Capitalism? • How are these reflected in our belief about the economic system? • What questions must we ask about American political culture? • How do we know? • Why the contradiction between beliefs and actions? • If we all agree, why political conflict?

  5. The National Motto

  6. American-ism? • “In Europe, nationality is related to community, and thus one cannot become un-English or un-Swedish. Being an American, however, is an ideological commitment. It is not a matter of birth. Those who reject American values are ‘un-American’”. • Seymour Martin Lipset, in American Exceptionalism, A Double-Edged Sword

  7. Explore the Constitution: How Do You Measure Freedom? 1.4 http://media.pearsoncmg.com/long/long_oconnor_mpslag_12/pex/pex1.html

  8. How does american political culture compare with other nations?

  9. Political Culture: Trust, Efficacy and Tolerance • How can we determine where we are as Americans in terms of our: • Feelings of efficacy? • Internal vs. External • Trust in government?

  10. Confidence in the president

  11. Trust in government

  12. Consider: Do Americans trust their government? Why or why not? American Political Culture • Homework: Assignment 2 for tomorrow; Collaborize post due Friday, response due Monday AP Government and Politics Unit 2

  13. From C-SPAN

  14. http://media.pearsoncmg.com/ph/hss/SSA_SHARED_MEDIA_1/polisci/presidency/Seg3_PoliticalCulture_v2.htmlhttp://media.pearsoncmg.com/ph/hss/SSA_SHARED_MEDIA_1/polisci/presidency/Seg3_PoliticalCulture_v2.html

  15. American Exceptionalism • “The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people” – deTocqueville, Democracy in America • And when asked specifically by a British journalist in 2009 whether he believes in American Exceptionalism, Obama replied thusly: "I believe in American Exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."

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