Common Places

American culture is chock full of common places, or simply, ideas that are strictly unique to specific countries or regions. While America has many of these, I feel Manifest Destiny dilplays this best. Manifest Destiny was the belief that Americans had the God given right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This meant that no foreign presence, Native Americans, or other colonial power could hold any claim over the land between the Atlantic to the Pacific. This idea led the United States to annex Texas, wage war with Mexico, pressure and threaten Great Britain, exterminate the Bison herds, put Navive Americans into camps, and to discriminate against foreiners. While most of this is negative, it is purely American. These experiences are unlike any country had faced before. Manifest Destiny made the U.S. the first country to ever feeled entitled to something, but we wouldn't be the last.

The United States is host to a slew of Urban Legends, otherwise known as common place mysteries that has been told as true, and could conceivably be true. The story of BIg Foot is known across the world, while there is no proof that it exists, it has created an entire feild of science, called crypto zoology. Urban legends are so prevalent, because people want to believe that mysteries or fun and outrages facts can exist, it is a hobby or past time of some people to collect images or outrages stories because people want to believe that the rules of nature can be broken.