Calling the values that are supposedly held by Americans “American values” would be accurate even if they were the exact same values held by the people of Belgium. They would also be “Belgian values” if that were the case.
I doubt anyone here would suggest that “American values” were exclusively American.
Calling the values that are supposedly held by Americans “American values” would be accurate even if they were the exact same values held by the people of Belgium. They would also be “Belgian values” if that were the case.
I doubt anyone here would suggest that “American values” were exclusively American.
So really just any values an American happens to believe in then?
No, the collected body of them. Hence the plural.