&#62; It's our sense of mission and purpose in the world. It's something that nobody else has. Only we have it because it's in our cultural fabric.<p>Really, you believe that stuff? That sounds like some kind of propaganda or something you would tell a child.  Do you think the Chinese tell each other "We have no purpose in the world, we are a silly nation, we'll never amount to anything."?  On the contrary!<p>Yes, we are what we are because of culture, but mostly because we won WWII, and happened to have lots of nukes, tanks, ships.