It doesn't make sense. Your people are proud of a peasant uprising defeating an empire, but went on to destroy the world of the Native Americans, and then called yourselves americans and are now proud to be americans? Your identity and home crisis is worse then the jewish people ever experienced since the Arab Muslim takeover of Judaea. Seriously, this doesn't make any sense, this logic of being proud to be american doesn't make any sense and seems a futile attempt to forget the reality that the USA is a collection of what Great Britain was, as Great Britain over took the Scottish, Irish, and Indian peasants. With the British EAst India company, overwhelmed native under developed peasants and took land. So you say your people are proud at successfuly revolting against them, but in turn did the same exact kind of expansionist idealism that Great Britain had when USA destroyed the Native Americans