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Originally Posted by JManc
Exactly.
The US is an extension of Europe...established by a European power and largely populated by European immigrants...setting the pace of American culture early on. Even non "European" Americans have largely adopted Western/ European customs everyone else has done all along.
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Not even Europe, but a handful of countries in the northwestern corner of Europe. As recently as 1980, nearly 80% of white Americans were of British, Irish, German, Dutch or Scandinavian descent (with the first three alone accounting for about 70%).