Really? Tell that to France, which actively tries to protect it's ethnic identity through government institutions. Tell it to Kosovo, who themselves just started a nation for that very purpose. Only in the US is it considered wrong for a nation to protect its ethnic self-identity.

I think that France and Kosovo represent two very different scenarios.

I don't agree with France's stance on ethnic identity. In fact, I think it's terrible and leads to things like the recent rioting in the Paris suburbs.

In reference to Kosovo - once again, I think this is an apples-to-oranges comparison. Kosovo was yoked together with the other "Yugoslavian" countries as part of a cold-war-era fiction. What we're seeing now is an attempt to rectify the mistakes of a prior age.

And yes, you are correct that Americans consider it wrong for a nation to protect its "ethnic identity." This is one of the things that I like about my country, and one of the reasons why I feel that majority opinion will eventually turn against the notion of a Jewish state.