Post 17 (11/30)

I thought it was interesting that nationalism was prevalent early on as a myth that America was the chosen nation. You see a lot of that in many slogans you see around America, such as from the song "God Bless America" which has replaced the "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" at baseball games. I thought this was a relatively new thing, but apparently this attitude was seen early on as well with the Puritans, who saw what we now call the United States as the promised land.