I'm a mix of a number of random European countries. Other than fond recounting of the Scottish heritage on a grandparent's side, the only thing that was pushed on me was that we're pure Americans.    I've got no one ancestral heritage, and never thought much about my pre-American identity since it's nowhere close to unified... hence, no crisis for me. What I did latch onto was that my ancestors have hung out on this continent for a century or two, and made a life of it shooting folks who had it coming. My ancestry is pretty much nothing but ranchers/cowboys and military.