Nope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
“The French writer Alexis de Tocqueville first wrote about it in his 1831 work Democracy in America:[7]
The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.[8]”
I was about to post De Toqueville, who btw is considered to be required reading for conservatives.
American exceptionalism is the worldview that the United States occupies a special role among the nations of the world in terms of its national ethos, political and religious institutions, and its being built by immigrants.
In the immediately preceding paragraph De Tocqueville states that he considers the American people to be an extension of England:
In spite of the ocean that intervenes, I cannot consent to separate America from Europe. I consider the people of the United States as that portion of the English people who are commissioned to explore the forests of the New World, while the rest of the nation, enjoying more leisure and less harassed by the drudgery of life, may devote their energies to thought and enlarge in all directions the empire of mind.
De Tocqueville did say that Americans occupied an exceptional position among democratic states, but that exceptional state was largely geographic. Americans lived in
"a new and unbounded country, where they may extend themselves at pleasure and which they may fertilize without difficulty. This state of things is without a parallel in the history of the world.
The theme of that chapter of Democracy in America is that Americans aren't really the uncultured rubes that they appear to be to their more civilized European cousins.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ch1_09.htm
Nice.