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Thread: Why did America claim itself “a city upon a hill”？

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[quote=YINDUFFY,320700]"A shining city upon a hill" is how I remember President Ronald Reagan saying it.  I believe it represents an ideal, something to strive for. 
    Our culture is one of continual improvement and not accepting the status quo. We continually strive to make things better, easier and more just. that is why we have many critics within our own country. We know we can do better and we let our elected officials know that. 
   The isolation resulted from the fact that a great many of our people have always been those who left some other place or country because they didn't like things there and wanted nothing more to do with what they left behind. A good example is Cuba. It has been said that in politics, the situation with Cuba is not a matter of foreign policy, it is a matter of domestic policy. So many former Cubans live in Florida who fled the Castro regime that any politician who supports Castro's Cuba will not get political support.
   Also many in Cuba today look at the U.S. as the "shining city upon a hill" and strive to come here even if it means a great risk to themselves by crossing the ocean in a rubber raft.
   Also our first President, George Washington warned us to " avoid foreign entanglements" or the web of alliances practiced by kings and  nations that resulted in difficult diplomatic matters. You can't please everybody and by aligning yourself with one side, you make enemies with others. We were a new nation and needed to settle down.[/quote]

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