Of course an argument could be made in that regard. Surprisingly enough, Fidel Castro might agree with you, because he tremendously admired George Washington and the other founding fathers of the USA and the ideals they brought forth. Latin Americans generally modeled their own struggles against colonial rule on the American example, and they usually wrote their new constitutions directly inspired by the American one.

When you go to other parts of the world, though, such as Europe or Asia, you will find them focusing on some quite different hinge of history, because it arises out of their past cultural history, not yours.

The English have modern democracy too. The whole English-speaking world does. They are under the impression that they came up with it on their own steam, by their own initiative, and as a matter of fact, they did...with or without the USA's example. They peacefully transformed constitutional monarchies into representative democracies.

The French had their republican revolution...a particularly bloody one...and they too eventually brought a modern democracy out of it, though not without spilling one heck of a lot of blood.