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i'm not, the pole is just retarded and missed the point.
>the classic mistake of state = nation
i'm actually paying lip service to the fact that it's not. in modern times, people conflate the two.
if you correctly recognize that the nation state is a retarded concept, completely artificial and hollow in the same way civic nationalism is, you also can't really use "american" as an identity because it's literally tied up in that exact concept.
there is no american nation, no american "people" in the same sense as a lithuanian people. it's a convenient shorthand to pretend like a common language (these days we don't even have that) binds us, that we all have the same culture, but the fact of the matter is we don't really have that beyond a surface level. people who move here hold on to cultural aspects of the old country, even if they don't keep the language around. the more you pay attention, the more you notice it. mannerisms, body language, personality types, etc. i've seen people here exhibit weird similarities along those lines when interacting with old worlders who share a common lineage. i was shocked upon meeting my first irishman, because he behaved the same way as an irish-american boomer (8th generation) who i knew.

america is a land of heterogeneous strangers, what links us together is no different than the globohomo melting pot that links you and me together. it's just a bit more extreme here. you're all not wrong for calling us rootless mutts, where you go wrong is assuming that the moment you're born here the last 30,000 years of ancestry go up in smoke. it's way more complicated than that. i don't think you'll be able to truly appreciate it until a few decades when you start seeing your new very alien immigrant populations spawn their fourth generation, and many are still not quite "lithuanian" o algo. they might be quite a bit more assimilated than the first wave, but they will never truly fit in the same way as some polish dude would.

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