red carpet rolled out at the airport? Maybe a small parade in the city?

Yeah, I'm not sure what this guy was expecting. I cannot imagine acting this way as a guest in another country. This is just...🙄.

The funny thing is that those people in Poland don't just have 'polish heritage' they are polish. She was as unspecial there as she could possibly be

I went to a book club for the first time yesterday. It was a nice environment and everyone was friendly but when I told them I also finished the entire book they weren't super stoked on me...

He wanted claps and hugs 🤗

A parade, most likely.

A "thank gawd you are here, we haven't functioned without you!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

20% probably would have been too little as well

ça c'est très drôle!!!!

LOL

Probably a sense of being welcomed as one of them, a sense of kinship.

They probably were expecting the same courtesy, as the British give to Canadians when they visit, versus the people who live in the USA.

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where did you get the 10%?

... Or claim to be 1/16th Native American Indian (Usually Cherokee)... "My grandpapa once waved at a Native American Indian!!! I'm definitely part Native American Indian!"... 🙄🙄🙄

I'm a mutt, not enough of much of anything to identify anywhere. Little bit of enough where people assume I am part of whatever culture they are part of.

What are white Americans then? There's no such thing as "American" heritage unless you're actually Native American. If you're white and live in the country, you're told partaking in southern customs is racist. If you're white and live in the city, you're told partaking in surrounding ethnicity's customs is cultural appropriation. Now we're told that partaking in the customs of our ancestors places of origin is also cultural appropriation.... So, wtf does anyone want from us?

It's not because it's where they come from, it's because it's still their cultural identity.

My mother was born to 100% Scottish parents on the English side of the border, just 20 miles from Scotland. Even though my family on her side is Scottish, born there and still living there, I don't think of myself as Scottish since my mother was born in England and I was born in England. If I were American, I'd be introducing myself as Scottish and wondering where I get to claim my free castle.

Actually it does mean that you have Scottish ancestry, of course you don't identify as being currently Scottish but it would be lying to deny your ancestry. Really as simple as that

Of course you have a cultural identity! It just happens to be one where many people appropriate from their ancestors culture as well as American even when some of you have never set foot in the “motherland”. The odd thing is Canada is right next door; is actually about a century younger. Literally depends on immigrants to sustain the population and we have all sorts of festivals and events dedicated to their family culture. My good friend has grandparents from the Ukraine, her and other families with their heritage celebrate multiple events throughout the year. Thing is, they don’t say they’re Ukrainian-Canadian; they are Canadian with Ukrainian roots. And no one gets offended because everyone loves Canadians… Sorry.

America has multiple cultures in a single state. You're so huge that you're not going to get a single cultural identity across the whole place. And there is nothing wrong with that. Hey, I'm Malaysian heritage UK born, the UK has different cultures a few miles apart sometimes - I can go 20 miles south and it is so culturally different that it feels like I crossed a country border - but I am no less British whether or not I follow cultural norms or stereotypes. Everyhere you go, if you ask someone in their own country about their culture, I've found that the answer is "What culture? [People] hve a culture, I don't."

But, most European countries include people from many cultural backgrounds, and we still don't do that. My parents are not from Germany but I would never claim their home country as my own, a country which to me is just another vacation place.

There are certainly subcultures in the US, but there's also rock & roll and hip hop, cold cereal, baseball, a game called football that has no relation to everybody else's football, US flags everywhere, huge pickup trucks, McDonald's...there is definitely an American culture

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You have American culture. Just accept it and stop appropriating culture like you're first generations when you're not even single digit generation anymore

I had a lovely time in Krakow, everyone was so friendly and helpful, and the only Polish I had been able to learn was Welsh dragon (luckily Mr Auntriarch is more useful than me).

Oczywista oczywistość.100 Procent Polaka w Polaku a nie jakiś farbowany podrabianiec 😃 szacunek, podziw i zniżka w Biedronce 😉