@skylar @SuperSnekFriend @Echigo @bleedingphoenix I don't think Ancient Rome and Britain are really analogous to the situation with North America to Europe. They conquered the savage Bri'ish and gave them an alphabet, laws, and aqueducts whereas the peoples who settled America belonged to the Catholic/Protestant part of Europe, (in contrast to the Orthodox part), with that same Latin alphabets and Western Christian traditions as the ones in their "old countries".
I'm not going to claim that Americans are literally Europeans, although ethnically and culturally many are, but are from the some broader "Western" (Catholic and Protestant Europe) European civilization as Europeans. Think about them what you will, we have the same common source, that's all.