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The fact that Americans are almost entirely descended from people who decided to uproot themselves and move to a foreign country where they don't have the same institutions, culture, or friends.
This is pretty not normal.
This assumes a large genetic aspect of being "weird".
Not necessarily, this was recent enough that it could be cultural.
Not unreasonable. Eg personality traits like openness have a decent heritability and are closely related to weirdness.