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[[Donald Trump]] is the first president in modern history to shrug off the notion of American exceptionalism: "I don’t like the term,” Trump said at a [[Texas]] campaign rally in 2015. “I don’t think it’s a very nice term. ‘We’re exceptional, you’re not.’”<ref>[https://thefloutist.substack.com/p/psychology-and-disorder "Psychology and disorder." American exceptionalism and its consequences.] American exceptionalism and its consequences. PATRICK LAWRENCE, SEP 6, 2023</ref>
[[Donald Trump]] is the first president in modern history to shrug off the notion of American exceptionalism: "I don’t like the term,” Trump said at a [[Texas]] campaign rally in 2015. “I don’t think it’s a very nice term. ‘We’re exceptional, you’re not.’”<ref>[https://thefloutist.substack.com/p/psychology-and-disorder "Psychology and disorder." American exceptionalism and its consequences.] American exceptionalism and its consequences. PATRICK LAWRENCE, SEP 6, 2023</ref>
== Contemporary Americans feelings of exceptionalism are the middle of pack results compared to other countries ==
The 2018 journal article [http://psychnet.wustl.edu/memory/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Zaromb_etal_JARMAC.pdf We Made History: Citizens of 35 Countries Overestimate Their We Made History: Citizens of 35 Countries Overestimate Their Nation’s Role in World History] published in the ''Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition'':
{{Cquote|Russians, for example, estimated that their country was responsible for 61% of world history. U.S. students provided an estimate of 30%, quite high in some regards, but modest compared to other countries. (e.g., 39% by Malaysians). Country-level estimates varied widely, ranging from 11% (Switzerland) to 61% (Russia). The total estimate (summing for all countries) was 1156%. We argue that students’ exaggerated estimates provide evidence for national narcissism and may be caused by several mechanisms, such as the availability heuristic—when students think about world history, they mostly think about the history of their country and thus assume their country must be important.
Citizens from the United States, which has arguably been the leading world power since World War II but is a relatively recent country in world history, reported a mean contribution of 30%, which places the US in the middle of the pack.<ref>[http://psychnet.wustl.edu/memory/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Zaromb_etal_JARMAC.pdf We Made History: Citizens of 35 Countries Overestimate Their We Made History: Citizens of 35 Countries Overestimate Their Nation’s Role in World History], ''Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition'', Volume 7, Issue 4, December 2018, Pages 521-528</ref>}}
==See also==
==See also==