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Yes, and the logic doesn't travel well the other way obviously. If people can't understand why in this country, and no doubt many others, you would be ridiculed for claiming to be Irish simply because your great grandparents were Irish. I'm in the boat with Pokkeherrie and Savage in that I find it odd that people have either pride or shame about where they are from. |
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ha ha, me too actually-- i'd rather be judged by my actions rather than... my longitude, latitude and genes?? but a lot of people i care about happen to be on the other side of the fence on this one. i still can't see what's the big deal though, ha ha, but they remain adamant, and i have to respect their choices. |
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I'm for that too and in fact it really bugs me when people says they act like this or that just because they are from some place.I can't take people like them seriously, no matter how hard i try.
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but on the other hand it would be madness to say that the environment or culture you grow up in doesn't influence your behaviour
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Yeah, unless you are invisible.
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i agree with this and i am not contradicting the statement i made above in my agreement.
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Indeed. Weirder still is the impulse to attribute any part of your personality to your great-great-grandparents' geography, but a lot of Americans do it. |
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recently, this old gringo dude asked me where i was from. i answered with the name of a certain south american country that shall remain anonymous the guy, seeing as to how i did not fit the physical stereotype associated with said country, asked me "but what is your heritage" without skipping a beat, i said "i come from a proud long line of mutts" now, i meant to say mongrels, meaning, all manner of peoples who have fucked in the past to bring me forth, but what the fuck, the english language plays tricks on me at times. regardless, the guy shut the fucked up which was my #1 objective. |
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Happy Americans-Pretending-They-Have-Some-Tenuous-Link-To-Ireland-Apart-From-Their-Surname Day!
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youre talking to yourself, youre halfway to being Irish already.
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No thanks
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