I remember at some point in primary school realizing that i had to stop trusting my #Immigrant parents linguistic judgements or I would get points off for using SAfrican English spellings, etc, instead of US English spellings.
I also fully participated in our school's patriotic indoctrination (pledging allegiance to the flag, singing patriotic and often religious songs every morning at school) while still feeling not fully "American"-- why would we take pride in a geographic accident?