It boils down to this:

1. The US is incredibly reactionary and one of its more insidious form of reaction is the one-drop rule. Like, fucking Nazis thought that shit was too extreme and so had the more “moderate” Nuremberg laws where you weren’t Jewish as long as you had less than 2 Jewish grandparents. The one-drop rule persists so that it’s somehow significant that someone has an Irish great-great-grandparent. The inability to not see things through some bullshit race science lens is why Americans break down their heritage by saying shit like “My ancestry test shows that I’m 22.56745% Northern English, 20.52312% Southern English, 32.75675% Parisian, 12.56745% Catalonian, 10.53657% Bavarian, and 1.04866% Luxembourger. Oh yeah, I also trace amounts of sub-Saharan African ancestry, so I’m allowed to say the n-word.”

2. White America is absolutely devoid of any form of culture that’s not crass consumerism or communal way of life that’s not completely reactionary like an evangelical church that believes vaccines are the mark of the beast and the sign of the end times. This means white people, especially Euro-Americans who have been heavily assimilated to WASPhood and don’t want to become a Mormon or something, latch on to anything that lets them escape being a second-rate Anglo. It’s also part of the reason why Black people constantly have their artforms stolen and watered down by white people or why white people who are 0.000000001% Indigenous pull a Elizabeth Warren to the point where actual Indigenous people call these pathetic white losers pretendians.

Americans love to claim authority over topics on which they are ignorant.

Europeans love to express in various ways that they are ignorant and incurious about the role of European ethnicity in the cultural, economic, and religious history of America.

Both sides are tedious and I wish they would stop.

decades of world hegemony makes Americans think they are qualified to have an opinion on everything and should involve themselves in situations that don’t concern them as much as possible

Canadians have these brainworms too from my experience. The Americas have the rich immigrant history but the US and Canada have that unique Anglo racism involving stuff like the one drop rule and blood quantams. They do this all the time with indigenous cultures. White and black Americans usually claim Cherokee or Choctaw with a very dubious story of a Native American ancestor. The latino ones do it with the same four tribes in Latin America out of several hundred.

I define being part of a nationality or ethnic group as having been raised in it. It’s something you’re born into and that can be a hard pill to swallow for those that want to connect with their roots and think it’s as easy as joining cultural groups. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t able to look into it if it really makes them curious. I just hate it when they claim to carry traits from various countries because of their weird “blood” system.

as an american leftist (aka :LIB:) i’m not reading all that. sorry that happened or i’m happy for you though