What makes American unique?

Sarah Hoyt has some interesting ideas about what makes Americans unique. 

It is that we are Ungovernable.  Part of her point is that Americans believe in a heavy dose of self government and don't have a need to find experts to tell them what to do.

I think this is a strong theme in the homeschooling movement.  We don't see a need to ask "the experts" how to raise our children.  And especially once you start to understand that "the experts" don't know all that much and/or are frequently wrong.  (I love Thomas Sowell's Inside American Education.)

As Janine said years ago: "We have a probelm with authority figures."