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There’s no exceptionalism. I’m not even an American. I just happened to have a string of English teachers in high school that rejected grammar mistakes in student essays with the same vigor they rejected bad arguments, logical fallacies, and more. It’s a classical style education: the trivium comprises grammar, logic, and rhetoric, therefore that was how the teachers evaluated the student essays.

I despise American exceptionalism myself. This is entirely an issue about the quality of the language, not the nationality of the person behind it.