Thousand Island
Kafka in the Castle, K is being charge, just for being himself, there is not need for any explanation, since the charge, become a existential question. The romantic moment in Germany was about the existential question, in return to the right to exist as individual, the individual needed to accepted the collective identity, there was not room for K, Slavic, Czech or Jews.
The concequence is intolerance to the right to decent. The collective identity was base on the ideal of agriculture society. But the power was not in a commune or village or a city, the power was a paternalistic structure, where the lord defined the values for the collective identity, there is not accident the Europe Aristocrats families come from the House of Hannover or more exact Celle a small city about 15 Km of Hannover. Where a minor French Aristocrat Sophie Dorothea descents are the major aristocrats of Europe. Where the Sun king had the absolute power.
The idea of absolute power in US was extended to a small class, defined by a privilege education, where privilege is access to the information of what is power, connections, money and image of all of them define the power elite, where in Europe immediate Family, tribe is the main drive, where in the US race is the case for example in the Southern States after even civil war was lost, the power over dark skin slaves was by the white skin, through separate but equals, but some are more equals then others, and the equal was the same skin, of course up to and after WWII, antisemitism was and still a factor, but was defined through the cultured, since intolerance was towards individuals, who will not accepted the collective believes and values. The Calvinist believe God give a wealth, so is a responsibility to control the wealth, the morality is not how to obtain wealth, but how to manage. The wealth in US or European nations had not issued with ethics of exploitation, since God defined power.
In the border between US and Canada the St Lawrence river has a thousand island, each one independent, but the ecosystem intertwined, the question how to balance the middle ground, where the individualism of US or collectivism of Europe, or tribal political power of Africa, the Middle East or East itself, or the cast system of India.