Does one have to be from Europe to understand Nietzsches intentions, tastes and aesthetics?
It is clear that it is vey well possible to understand that Nietzsche is right about things like perspectives and power. But it is also clear that it is hard to understand what he wanted the world to become like, if you are not familiar with the world he was from.
As his life progressed, N became more interested in outlining a future society, and describing the traits of future humans. Some of this material has been collected in the volume The Will to Power. Ive seen Americans discredit this volume on account of it having been edited by Ns sister, who is notoriously affiliated with the nazis. I think this is a sign of laziness and fear - to not dare to address the later Nietzsche because of the dangerous implications, and, leaving it unread, claiming that it is a hoax, written by the nazis themselves. Where in fact it is only in these later writings that we get to see the development of Ns “Philosophy of the Future”.
Now it may be altogether fascistic to want to plan the future for mankind. Or not. But the question remains - in that which N did write about the future, and much of that has already come true, there is a significant part “Europe”, and no part of “America”. The logics employed to analyze mankind are thoroughly European, beset with examples from European humans.
It is true that the greatest Americans can appreciate Nietzsches rudimentaries. More so, obviously, than more scaredycat like Europeans can, “Nietzscheans” included. But - can the American grasp what Nietzsche really loved about mankind?
Because what he loved is quite simply Europe, and its historical heart, the Greeks.