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Originally Posted by GlassCity

You're right, but I just don't see these other countries as having much better narratives. The US is about free enterprise, but that's not much of a national foundation either. You might talk about their stronger cultural bonds of football, talk shows, general exuberance, fast food, whatever, but those aren't cultural narratives, they're elements of culture.

I am not sure we should really get hung up on the word "narrative". Even though I am the one who brought it up. It's more... "what's this country about... fundamentally?"

Anyway, in terms of narratives, this one isn't bad TBQH.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"