Your beleif in what you write is very compelling, and it makes this essay easier to read, since you clearly did put some effort into it. However, I get the feeling that, structurally, it's very disjointed, with the introduction of evidence/examples sounding awkward and the transition sentences sounding jerkey. For a serious essay like this, those are important.

Personally, I beleive you are wrong, though there is a mountain of information available that might make the beleif a fact if I were to dig through it. America was founded on the principles of individual liberty, quite distinct from what you listed.

Eqaulity, except in the most general sense, is not something to be strived for. Human beings are equal in only one way: they are all human beings. By being a human, you are endowed by your Creator with fundamemtal rights, which are fundamental in that they allow you to govern yourself and do not require that others sacrifice themselves on your behalf, or vice versa. Naturally, this is the ideal, and it is not very often lived up to, but it is one of the ideals that went into America's founding.

Copromise, likewise, is not a fundamental ideal. It is a desierable consequence of people being allowed to govern themselves. Several individuals, or groups of individuals, will compete for something, will realize they cannot have all of what they want, and will compromise with their competitors for some of what they want. If they don't compromise, then nobody gets what they want. The only people who have any business detailing the terms of a compromise, or even the existence of one, are those involved in making it.

Open-mindedness, again, is not a fundamental ideal. Like compromise,it is a desireable result of individual governing. Ideally, a person would be free to prusue their happiness however they chose as long as it didn't interfere with the rights of others. That means that if I should suddenly decide to raise the swastika, shave my head, and replace the Bible on my coffee table with Mein Kampf, there would be nothing wrong with this. A person is perfectly free to be whatever bastard he chooses to be, unless he violates the rights of others in being so. That is the terrible price of freedom: the emergence of all mindsets, and it's something all free societies have to deal with.

And...I appear to have rambled on about this much longer than I had meant to. I hope what I've offered has done some good.

I can only applaud your honesty and willingness to listen to others. The world needs more Republicans like that.

Thanks for pointing that out, I know that other countries have freedoms and I was just trying to make America sound perfect because that was the assignment. I'm planning on changing that mistake, that may offend some, right away. :)

Speaking as a Brit, I should point out that we've got exactly the same rights here. So has Europe and many other countries.
Your country is not as unique as you claim that it is.