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Originally Posted by Freebasser
Also, lolz at United Statesians desperately clinging on to some sort of notion that despite the fact that their last ancestors travelled over from Europe 100 years ago, that deep down they are in fact 50% Irish.
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i explained this to an english friend of mine once...
we Americans cling to our family heritage b/c we're displaced. we're not from here, unless we're native americans. we have this need to belong to somewhere else... at least i do. we have a need to know our heritage and where our family is truly from. i don't think the english or other europeans or whoever really understand that need b/c you know who your anscesors are. your mom is english and your dad is english. not in every case, of course, but mostly.
i know i'm mostly english/irish from my father and scottish from my mother with about 5 other things mixed in there.