Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
'Mutt-American' is one of the least named hyphenated-American. Only in the Appalachians do Americans overwhelmingly name 'American' as their etnicity.

I say Americans are obsessed with genetic and cultural heritage. The difference is, that Americans overwhelmingly do not build hysterical hyper-nationalistic ideologies around it. It is more personal, more positive. From a sense of personally belonging to instead of excluding others of.
Ethnic nationalism is hard to put on Americans since American is neither an ethnicity nor a race. We're barely Americans, we're African America, Irish American, Hispanic American. I believe the metling pot is why we've never fallen for complete hyper-nationalistic groups as European countries have. Though, nationalism has occured in periods like the Spanish-American War.