>>729680Nationalism is a cult of personality.
There is an American nation. Americanism as well as any nationalism is simply the impression of that cult of personality on the masses.
The quality of a british patty, a german cheese and meat, and african-american barbecue method adapted from a Native-American cooking method doesn't matter: all that matters is the American cult of personality grabbed these items and said it was American.
Same for the qualities of whiteness and so on.
(I'm not going to argue whether race itself is real or not, but IMHO racial question doesn't amount to much until those aspects are consolidated and affected by a cult of personality–only then do white people make much of whiteness, not that they weren't somewhat qualified by it before and might even quarrel over it like race nationalists would say).