Movies I'm presuming were made in Hollywood largely feature American protagonists? I'm shocked. Don't writers know they should presume to know other cultures instead? /s

What other languages call Americans is irrelevant. We're talking in English. Do you think it would be appropriate to call Germans Germans (the English word) in deutsche? Or Japanese people Japanese in their language? Japan, by the way, is actually a translation murdered Chinese name for their people. They refer to themselves as Nihonjin, well 日本人, literally people of the land of the rising sun.

America has always had a xenophobia problem. This means when large groups of immigrants arrive all at once, they're basically forced to rely on each other because the locals are pretty unfriendly. The result is an immigrant community whose country of origin becomes the thread that kept them all together. The Italians of New England are the Italians because that identity is what saved their community from honestly a really fucked up time. And yeah, the Italian mob also comes from that time period. If you can't earn money via legitimate means, crime is sometimes the only answer.

We know the difference between Italian Italian and Italian American.

We don't presume to represent two continents. The policy of our government and the views of the average American are not aligned in that way. Most Americans think we're the good guys, going out to stop bad guys. Like, actually. Yeah, it's stupid, but a lot of Americans are waking up to the reality of the situation, now. We're the most propagandized population on the planet, and it was only during covid that a lot of people saw the mask slip.