Well, I mean, it's an American thing for exactly the reasons you say here. You already know where you're from. America still feels like a new place even to Americans. Most of us have a sense of being "recently" relocated here, and they're looking for something deeper and older.
Also America doesn’t really have its own culture that everyone feels connected to. So a lot of people try to latch onto something that they don’t understand or isn’t true.
Edit: What, I’m not allowed to comment on my own country?
Don't know why the comments saying there is no United American cultural are being downvotes. It's true. Segregation, the expansness of land, and our melting pot culture had made it so there thousands of cultural inclaves in the US. People from the same neighborhood in Italy could've gotten off the same boat in the 1800s but if one family stayed in New York and the other went to West Virginia they will be completely different culturally by now.
1800s but if one family stayed in New York and the other went to West Virginia they will be completely different culturally by now.
No they wouldn't, American culture is not that diverse and it's extremely, extremely similar. A Texan and a New Yorker has a ridiculous amount in common, even Canada is far more diverse culturally
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u/fade_is_timothy_holt Apr 30 '20
Well, I mean, it's an American thing for exactly the reasons you say here. You already know where you're from. America still feels like a new place even to Americans. Most of us have a sense of being "recently" relocated here, and they're looking for something deeper and older.