Comments on: “People were different, not only from Swedes, but from each other.” https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/people-were-different-not-only-from-swedes-but-from-each-other/ Thu, 06 Jul 2017 02:03:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/people-were-different-not-only-from-swedes-but-from-each-other/#comment-998950 Thu, 06 Jul 2017 02:03:59 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=46460#comment-998950 We also have the freedom to fail; and that is maybe the most important freedom we have.

]]> By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/people-were-different-not-only-from-swedes-but-from-each-other/#comment-998949 Thu, 06 Jul 2017 01:51:20 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=46460#comment-998949 From the essay: “You are exceptional, and coming to America taught me that I could be exceptional, too. Thank you for that. Thank you.”

It is the freedom to try new things that makes America exceptional. It is not that we are exceptional people, better than everyone else — after all, we come from everywhere else, so we are everyone else. It is not the location, because any country with the same freedoms and liberties can be just as exceptional. Anyone else from anywhere else can come here and take advantage of freedom to be just as exceptional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuv0K8H8ILM (12 minutes)
What We Believe, Part 7: American Exceptionalism

]]> By: ken anthony https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/people-were-different-not-only-from-swedes-but-from-each-other/#comment-998813 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 06:06:35 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=46460#comment-998813 Texas is especially loud. I went to the boyscout jamboree in Idaho in 1973. Bob Hope addressed us and at one point started to list the states in attendance at which point the scouts from that state would stand up and cheer. When he got to CA about a quarter of the 70,000 scouts stood up. When he got to TX they were a lot smaller group than CA but about 4 times as loud!

]]> By: Joe https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/people-were-different-not-only-from-swedes-but-from-each-other/#comment-998770 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:53:49 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=46460#comment-998770 Exceptional! Great essay from a young person who is exceptionally perceptive to what makes the United States such a great country! Enjoy this holiday everyone, understand that it was brought to us by men and women that have and would sacrifice everything.

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