My dad was in the US Air Force so I grew up on airbases and was overseas a lot. 2 years in Alaska, 4 years in Germany, 4 years in California, 2 years in the Azores, and then I went to high school in the Panama Canal Zone.
A lot of kids were typical Americans from Indiana or Ohio ro anywhere, but a lot of us had mothers who were German, Italian, British, Japanese, Filipino, or like my mother, French.
It was really important that we cultivated an American culture, and it was a real melting pot, not multi-cultural, we all wanted to be Americans first, and of another heritage second. It was like small town America on another planet, and we all pulled together to make our little home town wherever we were.
When we went to visit the family in France, we stood out as 100% American, we weren't French at all, and all the French kids wanted to hear what it was like in America, and was it really cool in California.