The US inherited its social, political, and philosophical culture from Britain, not Germany. That is not to say that you cannot detect German influences on a local level, in Wisconsin, for example.

Many Germans like to visit America, of course. But I don't think that's because they identify with it: It's because to them it is an attractive other.

A bomb, H bomb, Minuteman / The names get more attractive / The decisions are made by NATO / The press call it British opinion -- The Three Johns