We could have horrible people who decide to focus on our plundering and slaveholding instead of viking culture, but no one here is attempting that despite the U.S's very deliberate attempt.
Everyone knows our past in detail, but those who make viking reenactments are both Socialists and rightwingers cos we're allowed to see both sides.
I thing Americans ought to feel the same way - heck every country ought to
If I knew nothing about global slavery, I'd still know that my Danish viking past centuries before the U.S or Britain, was filled with house slaves. Before the word even existed we called them "Trelle". Something we learn early in Denmark,