It would have been easy to find a conservative person’s speech and use that as an absolutist example. However, it is important to note that liberal also draw from these myths. Case in point, then Senator Barack Obama’s commencement speech at the University of Massachusetts back in 2006, affirms the myth of the chosen nation. In his speech, he claims, “It was right here...where the American experiment began. As the …show more content…
One of their articles, “6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America”, though, was a cynical response to the myth of nature’s nation. Essentially, they showed how the idea that America was carved from nature could not possibly be true. They discussed how Native Americans essentially carved out the North American wilderness, which made it easy for European settlers to move out west. Another aspect of nature’s myth is how it is ahistorical-American is essentially untouched by human tradition. Cracked’s article destroys that part of the myth by showing how many things were borrowed or learned from people and cultures outside of the one found in American