My sympathies. I still don't get the whole aZn Pride~~!!~!@!!111 thing my peers have, either, or how some of my aunts told their cousins they can ONLY have girlfriends from Taiwan or some such rot. I have no attachment to that place, but even living here all my life, I have no particular patriotic pride about being Canadian, either. I just don't see the superiority or whatever of a particular country. I'm rather ignorant of world matters at large, but I don't think that has anything to do with what nation I'm from.

So...yeah. Just Word to everything you've said.

Can't you just omit the information that you're American? Or can they tell from your accent?