In your own words, how does too much emphasis on American exceptionalism hinder our understanding of American history?
Sounds like the teacher has already made up his/her mind that American exceptionalism has hindered our understanding of American history.
I told me daughter to say that we don't have enough emphasis on American exceptionalism.
The schools, K through post graduate I assume, need to be ridden of all these liberal Marxists.
My answer: When we believe too much in “American Exceptionalism” we will believe America is special and untouchable, therefore unable to fail. Rather than being able to step back and learn from all the other empires and influential cultures that have fallen by the exact same playbook or similar, we will ignore the warnings that our founders warned us about, and innocently undo the safeguards they set up to protect us. We will take liberty for granted, and fail to protect it. We will let division turn us against each other, forgetting the reasons we should stand united, as we let manipulators twist our understanding of our history. That can continue little by little until we become a nation exactly opposite of everything we once believed, and eventually be no more.