> language, culture, history, and geographical proximity English, the language of England? European culture, with a heavy and detectable German tradition? Popu

> language, culture, history, and geographical proximity English, the language of England? European culture, with a heavy and detectable German tradition? Population with a history of maybe a century or so in America and millennia of habitation mainly on the Eurasian landmass + Africa? It probably took a lot of propaganda to forge an independent US identity out of that and make it care enough about a small number of deaths to take it personally instead of just interpreting it as more-or-less-the-same-people squabbling violently. The only thing your argument that it occurred naturally has going for it is geography - and the US is damn huge so I don't think that is persuasive. I mean, we all love the US sense of togetherness. But it took (and takes) a lot of work to make it happen and it is purposefully nurtured and backed up by a lot of organised propaganda.