American values are a lifetime in political office and laws that apply to everyone except the ruling class.
We are and have been different from all other nations and social structures on the planet.
The basic element to Americanism is personal freedom, which in and of itself is encyclopaedic in scope and practice.
It's a lot easier and faster to describe the non-American ... like obama .. than it is to describe an American.
Go anywhere on earth and you are immediately identified ... "You're American, ain'cha' ?"