I totally agree with the Reverend Sister about priorities in perspective. I would just add that it does seem to be universal for residents of "Old World" nations to see themselves as the "true" members of that ethnic group.

When Americans and other natives of colonized nations try to identify with the homelands of their ancestors, they are generally dismissed as poseurs by those natives, rather than embraced as distant cousins. Unless, of course, that nation would like these "cousins" to support its economy.