De Crevecouer in "Letters from an American Farmer" writes about how differently the over crowded, unfair class system and inability to change your individual situation of Europe compares to an America where everything is new and people are given a chance to start a fresh with no set right to land etc and how there was more equality to a degree than in Europe. "Here we have in some measure regained the ancient dignity of our species", this seems to state that he feels European society had gotten off track and America was on the right track.
America has always been a forerunner in many areas throughout modern history whether its providing the world with many of our modern day inventions such as the television, light bulb, telephone and many more to having the first human beings to walk on the moon, is this to do with a better standard of living? more money? or just having the drive because they are American?! This goes back to De Crevecouer's beliefs that America is exceptional and better than Europe "here on the contrary, everything is modern".
http://www.nasa.gov
America still continues to excel in many areas and I have chosen NASA's website to show how the Americans still strive to be at the forefront of space exploration (and appear to be doing so). As I said they were the first country to have a man on the moon and are also planning the same for Mars, for America it doesn't seem to be the case of if or maybe but when.
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