My, my. If you don't want to get into this 'again', then why so many words about it? But I (And may the reader take that cum grano salis.) get it: There are no differences between Americans and Europeans - god forbid! We're all individuals. Except for that one over there, he's insisting that he's different from all the others: He says he's part of the collective, you know.
So, if we get back on topic now, I'll promise to stop speculation on the sociological reasons for those differing perspectives.