I live in a region of the US that’s of mostly Scandinavian and German ancestry.
A former neighbor who was born in Germany once made an offhand remark that some of the cultural traits of the area reminded him more of his grandparents than modern Germany.
Things like recipes, holiday traditions, word pronunciation, or even more vague things like working a lot and never spending money.
I know Europeans get a major eye roll when Americans say things like “I’m 1/4 Italian and 1/8 Polish”, but I’m wondering if you’ve ever been to parts of the US or other places with a lot of people descended from your country and had an “uncanny valley” feeling of it being a strange offshoot of your country?