Were I to move to a foreign country, I suspect I'd be able to integrate, or try to do so as much as possible, without offending my host country. I know what I am and am not privileged to accept, and I would prefer to learn the boundary lines of acceptable cultural appropriation before I attempted to take anything into it's own stride. I don't think I could stand to be the obnoxious American who was trying to be just like..Everyone else. I don't know; I'd share I suspect some of my own heritage insomuch as I tried to revel in theirs.
It's an odd question to ponder since, frankly, it seems like a very remote possibility, but if I had to /move/ there, to /live/ there, I'd try to adapt as best I could in regard to my own moral beliefs and political views. Naturally, I won't get along well in plenty of places, I'm sure, but if that means retaining some of my own sense of self preservation and being I suspect it'd be a far cry nicer than dropping what I believe is right for another person, even if that 'person' is a country.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you.
But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.
-Richard Adams, Watership Down.
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