>>511306874 (OP)If you are born and raised American you can be nothing else. Your only options are to be a damaged or malignant rootless character or accept that American is your origin and your people and own it and build it into something meaningful despite the careless stupid short-sighted and relentless work others have done to degrade the meaning.
Decades of aggressive political theater/psyops and social engineering optimizing culture towards more profitable ends with intrusive marketing and surveillance have left a large portion of the US population irreparably damaged as a unifiable cohesive culture. Campaigns meant to inflict fear (for control) loathing (divide and conquer) and isolation (pacification) has cultivated a national culture that is festering and rotting the national organism (the unifiable soul and will of an entire national people) to the core.
The only cure is to own your Americanism as your ingroup and refuse to allow any more foreign outgroup immigrants to come in a rot it further with their fucked up views of what America is that are generally built on self-service and seeking to better their own lot, not assimilation or custodianship of the national identity. Most immigrants make zero effort to assimilate because Americanism is vilified and slandered but that doesn't stop them from moving here to upgrade their personal lot in life to degrade the identity further. To make matters worse part of the population has been led to believe foreigners moving here for self-service is the 'American dream' because the commercial complex wants their labor and debt-potential.
There's no fix for it, we may be among the last generations of Americans. What comes next will be an entirely new kind of American, but the war to define who those people will be is being fought today and there is meaning in that.