It's "the American way." My way or the highway doesn't work.
Actually, if history is any judge, the "my way or the highway" attitude served the United States of America very well, starting several hundred years ago.
The USA is a unique experiment in nation building. Everyone, essentially, is from somewhere else. Their culture is one they created recently (last 200 years) not one that evolved over 1500 years as is the case almost everywhere else in the world.
And "their way" caused them to rocket to the top of the pile in terms of social, political, economic and military might and influence and become the envy of the world. Some might foolishly argue with my use of the word "envy". But no other nation in the world is close in terms of chosen destination for emigration and no other nation in the world has it's society followed and copied like the US.
Yeah, I'd say "my way or the highway" works quite well for the US. That's why there is the expression "The American Way".
