I have never connected with it either and I don't understand a lot of people who do connect with European ancestry when sometimes they have never been there and their family moved here 4 generations ago.

I had a friend who would always try to talk to girls while we were out and he would always say he was Italian even though he had never been there. I think his great great grandma moved here or something. I thought it was so weird for him to say that when he was born in the United States.