content: You're not wrong that the ethnic heritage of America is a much fuzzier thing than in smaller, more homogeneous countries like Norway or Japan. But if you tighten your gaze from "continent spanning country" to individual states or counties, you can find several areas that have an intense heritage that goes back to German or English immigrants. These areas have a right to their heritage and that includes protecting it from "modernization" into whatever new sociopolitical fad has sprung up in the last 5 years. Ethnic nations have existed for thousands of years and seem to have been working pretty well. Only within the last few decades did this concept of multiculturalism even exist and now we're stuck in what seems to be a neverending stream of racial disputes.