As a European you're an outsider looking in, telling us what our American experiences are. Consider that your POV might not be objective fact. Edit: As one co

As a European you're an outsider looking in, telling us what our American experiences are. Consider that your POV might not be objective fact. Edit: As one counterpoint fact, in my city there are 2nd-generation Italian-Americans who speak English with an accent. Born in American hospitals, raised in our public schools, and don't have the local American accent. "There's nothing Italian about them" is overreaching.