I can honestly say I have never once played as anything other than myself here, At least not with my current username. I use English slang, Wnglish spelling, I've openly complained about English politicians, maybe occasionally I'll use elevator instead of lift, but that's just one of those cultural contamination things you get when 80% of the media you consume is American. My fiancee has pointed it out. That and the fact that ZEE just sounds more natural than ZED are about the only Americanisms I'm aware of. Also, I have openly SAID I was English on a number of occasions. Sometimes when I sense there's some snakery afoot I might refrain from answering a direct question about my nationality. I've done the same with my race and age. You know that you can sometimes tell when your answer is going to be used against you, and on those rare occasions I EVADE, but I have never pretended - Not that I'm above fibbing, but I know that I've mentioned my nationality before and we got some autists here who would remember.

It has never been a goal to present myself or to let others assume my nationality is American. There's just no benefit in it for me.

If you took any of that as "Acting like an American" I would - and normally I would only say this if I was trying to get under the skin of someone trolling at me, and I DO think you're trolling me, but this I swear is not what I'm doing here and I 100% in earnest put this to you as a genuine possibility - I would ask if maybe it's not a touch of American centrism (If I was trying to needle you I'd have went with American exceptionalism). You see someone who you don't know, you fill in the blanks with assumptions that they are like you?