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Originally Posted by drigel
After all, we are decendants of colonialists and immigrants who weren't particularly fond of, or at the very least disenchanted with what (the real) western European history wrought for them. Yet one cannot deny genetics. Roots is roots.
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I'm not sure if I'd say that the European immigrants of the last centuries were disenchanted with or not fond of their cultural history. By and large, I think that most immigrants had a fondness for "the old country". It was simply the lure of a better life, and a growing overcrowding in their own countries that forced them out.
It would be this very nostalgia for the "old country" and its ways that would make the descendents of the immigrants susceptible to a "fake mythology", recalling as it does the cultural history that we've had glimpses of passed down by our forefathers, but with which we are no longer acquainted.
Of course, I could just be restating what you just said...
