The USA did not teach any of that-it just reinserteted those already understood and accepted concepts into those nations.
Nice attempt to over up your ignorance.
Once again, democracy can not be imposed from outside. In all cases where democracy flourishes a pre-existing condition for its truimph existed (as in the case of Japan and Germany). The USA has never been able to impose a democracy on a nation that did not have the foundations for a democracy and the USA has never been able to create anywhere-anytime the foundations that would allow for a democracy to evolve. - Name me one nation where the foundations for democracy did not exist (never held elections on their own) that the USA has been able to transform it to a democracy via nation building or any such method? Dare ya. Double dare ya.
Your arguments might be more compelling without this sort of sophomoric chest-thumping.
In all cases where democracy flourishes a pre-existing condition for its truimph existed
Well, I'll concede that - since pre-existing conditions for democracy are the human condition. I think, therefore I want a say in what happens to me.
To pretend that the Germans and Japanese had a firm tradition of democracy briefly interrupted by totalitarian otherness is...something else again. In the East, particularly, the idea of subordinating individual desires to the needs of a collective is the underlying ethos. Far more inimical to democracy than the historical traditions of the Middle East.