I've tried, and you find yourself apologizing to people, as if you had used overly correct grammar in front of the uneducated. The whole tone of Silicon Valley is very un-American. There is no consciousness of national identity at all. Silicon Valley people wouldn't know what to do with such a thing. Americans are just another ethnic group.
National borders are surely irrelevant.
The old hierarchies have a nasty way of reasserting themselves in a mountain-hemmed valley with a limited supply of buildable land. Silicon Valley people really do think that this is the first speculative boom in the history of capitalism, the first group of instant millionaires, the first time lives were changed by technology. And they have preposterous ideas about the size of the social changes their technologies are bringing about. I have yet to see a single significant social change brought about by the Web, for example. I asked him when this had first become possible.