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In other words, many people in some cultures have very obvious pride in language, customs, sports teams, race/ethnic and/or national identity. ...seems to be a requirement for 24/7 pride based on whatever in some places. In other cultures, displays of pride are more limited to and reserved for accomplishments of deeds or goals.

How in your opinion Americans would react if they were in such situation like Serbs are: if they were attacked, part of their core historical territory (like East Coast) was occupied by foreign powers, if they were being expelled by hostile ethnic group while the monuments of the past were being erased.

What is your experience telling you. Do you think that they would "limit displays of pride to and reserve for accomplishments of deeds or goals".

"What is your experience telling you. Do you think that they would 'limit displays of pride to and reserve for accomplishments of deeds or goals'."

On "displays of pride," I was referring to the behaviors of individuals. In Denver, Colorado, USA, for example, many of the Russian ethnic people are moving into a Mexican culture neighborhood, where they say that they are more culturally comfortable. I'm not complaining about it but am interested. Most (not all) walk very stoicly and speak very loudly with much emphasis of accent in language. They are also very easily offended and perceive even American soldiers to be weak and effeminate by what we in the USA call gentlemanly behavior (remotely similar to old Chinese religious standard of personal humility for warriors).

But in reply to the rest of what you wrote, we in the USA would probably do what most others in the world are doing in that kind of situation. If we did not assimilate a high influx of a culture that is very different from ours, we would eventually partition the area of other culture from our own. Genocide is not an option for us, considering our moral values, and partitioning is a much more humane (although very difficult) way of "ethnic cleansing."

But then so far, we in the USA have assimilated other cultures that are very different from our own. It will be interesting to see what we do with our recent and current higher flow of immigrants. If they change our culture much, we deserve it for having embraced feminism (divorce, cohabitation,...) and for having abandoned older family values, IMO.