Is America a nation of "blood and spirit" / "blood

>>2394760
America is no nation at all. It is a country. The idea is freedom, blood plays not much of a role traditionally. To bring heritage into play is a very sad turn of events for the US.

America as a large economic space inhabited by people who live in relative isolation to one another.

>>2394760
But historically Americans have made VERY much of heritage, especially European heritage, up until the late 1960s.

>>2394760
I'd say idea makes the most sense. Most white Americans are not of primarily English decent but still hold English style values from Magna Carta.
Also, look at the black population. The most successful ones graduate and move to the suburbs; they see themselves as individual Americans living in America, not as people living in a separate, black culture in America.
It's the same with immigrants. The most successful are the ones who come not for easy money, but for American freedom. They cast off their old nation and melt into American culture.

>>2394760
>On the one hand, I tend to reject ideas of racial supremacy in favor of cultural supremacy

Which is ultimately the problem. There is a demonstrable gap in the average intelligence of the races, so regardless of what America "is", or its ideals "are", the reality is that blood cannot be safely ignored.

>>2394760
America is the product of the union of many different european peoples.

>>2396486
Who all adopted English values and cast off their old ones.