Macedonians have an indentity, unlike American officials

Yes, the State Department officials are “American” in the sense of being a citizen and having an American passport.  But their attachment to the United States of America is both thin and fleeting – they fancy themselves “citizens of the world” a somewhat delusional thought with no legal basis – and find they have much more in common with their counterparts in Paris, France, than in Paris, Arkansas, or Paris, Missouri, or Paris, Illinois.  And because they don’t have an attachment to a real identity, they don’t believe you should either.  And when you (Macedonians or others) do assert your love for your identity, for your nation, for your traditions, history, culture, language and much more, they actually recoil in horror thinking this to be a very barbarian way of living and loving.  And then, believing you to be barbarians, they often treat you as such.  Barbarians, of course, must be subjugated and ruled.