How German is American?

My view of this whole issue where Americans say that they are 25% German and such is way different than most Americans since I myself am not from the US. The issues Americans seem to have regarding their ethnicity seem to be almost comical. Considering that US nowadays has almost 0% original inhabitants we have to understand that nationality cannot be connected to ethnicity in this case. Ever since the Americas were found by Columbus there has been constant emigration from Europe to America. Of course Germans as they were the raising nation during the industrial revolution would take the chance of emigrating to the US and achieve their dream of owning and having land since Europe was getting quite packed. Even nowadays most of our every day decisions are made based on economical basis. Whether you eat at Pizza Hut or Papa John's is often a matter of much more than just tastes (since we all know Papa John's is the best) Cheaper and more accessible Pizza Hut often wins instead. So you can't blame any Europeans for moving to Americas. But to really concentrate on the question how much German Americans are I feel like the answer could be simply zero. Americans as a nation can't define themselves based on ethnicity nor history since compared to Europe America has like no history at all. The American society intermarried so many times that the social differences are mostly gone and thanks to that huge pond the contacts with Europe were broken too. Americans since then evolved in their own direction and have nowadays pretty much nothing in common with Europeans. Just the everyday habits are different, for example wishing each other mahlzeit is unheard of in the USA whereas in Europe it's a common thing, and not only in Germany. We can find traits across nations that might suggest that they are connected, and the truth is that the differences in cultures are starting to shirng as the world is becoming more and more global.

In my opinion any American who says that is some percent German is either not proud to be American, or has a real struggle with searching for his identity. Stay Americans (one of the most hated nation in the world) instead of trying to associate with other nations to get the best of both worlds ;)