They, TOO, feel their own culture. It's not remote, not geeky, not something they're supposed to "get over", to shun. They live it, breathe it. And they're not electronically dominated by a tiny foreign minority that hates them. A hundred hurricane could hit them.
They'd be FINE.
Back when, when the English speaking world believed in the old Anglo Saxon order, you know, queue up for the bus and read the Times, we would have been fine too. Now, well the pictures form Baltimore show what we have become.