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In America it's a pride thing since even if you don't consider yourself whatever ethnicity, everyone else does. If you have an Irish last name people will call
by ecshafer 8y ago
In America it's a pride thing since even if you don't consider yourself whatever ethnicity, everyone else does. If you have an Irish last name people will call you Irish, even if your family has been in the states for 4 generations. So people become attached to that out of pride.
- kochikame 8y agoI get the pride but there comes a point when "Irish Americans" can no longer speak for Irish people, a point that I feel is much sooner than 4th generation Like the commenter above you, I am very suspicious of Americans with only tenuous connections to a far off land claiming expertise/knowledge/understanding of that culture