You’re partially right here and I agree that America isn’t just an idea, culture, heritage, and shared experience matter. But unlike Japan, America’s foundation was explicitly ideological: liberty, natural rights, self-governance etc…

We’ve always been a hybrid, part creed, part culture.

So yeah, preserving traditions matters, but so does understanding that what makes America unique is that its core identity can be shared across bloodlines if the ideals are truly embraced and lived out.

That doesn’t mean we don’t have a real culture worth protecting, but it does mean we’re not Japan, and we never were.

We’re something else entirely.