Does the low number of US UNESCO Cultural Heritage Sites embarrass you?

[RINO Tom]

Not really ... our base culture is that of New World Europeans who left our home continent ... notice that that means it's plural, and there has never been one dominant ethnicity or specific set of cultural values that have defined us, past maybe the very early years of the English colonies.  That carries with it plenty of advantages, like how we have led the world in many areas of technological advancement, creation of entertainment and economic advancement/innovation over the last century or two, but it will naturally carry with it the consequence that we won't have some universally agreed upon shared "English" past or "German" past or "Italian" past.  This country was almost purposefully set up to be a "New Europe," and you aren't going to have these cool historical sites in such a place.  That is why a lot of our sites are from the indigenous Americans who already lived here.