Originally Posted by TheSquealer

There is no such thing as "American" unless its a reference to ones passport and citizenship. This is a nation of immigrants and natives. There is a great deal of division. There is no sense of national identity. There is no sense of "our own people". The USA is very much divided in every possible way and always has been, only using the rhetoric of "the american dream" to mask that obvious truth. Most other countries don't have this problem, where even with a diverse ethnic breakdown, there is still a broader sense of what it means to be "insert nationality here" and live in "insert country here" and there is usually some sense of nationalism (beyond flag waving and chanting idiotic slogans)