Let's not forget our anti-war movements, which are just as much a part of our culture as apple pie and militancy. Mark Twain wrote: "Man is the only Patriot. H

Let's not forget our anti-war movements, which are just as much a part of our culture as apple pie and militancy. Mark Twain wrote: "Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood of his hands and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man'—with his mouth." Mark Twain, for those who don't know, is one of the US's most defining authors; I read his fiction as a schoolchild. I think the answer to the OP's question is simpler: We're the world's most warlike people, spending probably more than the rest of the world combined on military. So it stands to reason we'll have a pro-war propaganda budget. That's a more hacker-like explanation, at any rate, as I imagine hackers tend to avoid anything that smells like ideology, and prefer realpolitik arguments. (BTW, I also think there definitely is an ethnic component; that of the European peoples who are categorized as "white". It's reflected in the language we're speaking now, as well as culturally and racially. Those who come from elsewhere are referred to as "ethnic minorities", pretty much implying an ethnic majority. Plus, we have developed many national mythologies during our centuries, to make up for history only starting with our conquering of the land from the mostly exterminated indigenous population.)