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I've heard this before from non-Americans and those people really need to let this argument go. The fact is, there is very little inherent culture that's purely American (not counting indigenous people, of course). Yes, we have jazz music and bluegrass music and some other things with origins in the US, but for the most part, any cultural influences come from our ancestral countries. It's fine, for example, if the people living in Ireland don't believe that people in the States with Irish heritage are really "Irish" -- but don't be such gatekeepers of nationality and culture that you deny the right of Americans to celebrate and take pride in their ancestral heritage. The USA was born from immigrants -- we are a true 'melting pot' of cultures -- and because there's no real "American culture", telling people we're "Germans" or "Armenians" or "Italians" is all we've got. And it doesn't diminish the culture or people of the 'motherlands' -- so what's the big deal? Let us celebrate that.