Americans tend to be more extreme and very individualist. Very distrustful of organizations and institutions. Many of the early European settlers were escaping

Americans tend to be more extreme and very individualist. Very distrustful of organizations and institutions. Many of the early European settlers were escaping religious/state persecution as well as the powerful trade guilds that dominated life in Europe at the time. I think a lot of this comes from the German immigration to the US, Germans to me seem a lot more tribal than the English. Maybe due to Germany operating as a collection of tribes and UK as an expansionist empire. Could be beer hall culture vs pub culture. When visiting Germany it was notable how small groups of people who didn’t know each other barely interacted. If I needed help burying a body I would only ask my American friends. Friends from most other countries wouldn’t help and just encourage me to turn myself in. Not that I’ve needed this help but if I needed to do something where it was us against the world I would pick Americans to join me. I found it more difficult to make friends with Americans, they tend to maintain far fewer friendships, but the few they do maintain are held more strongly.