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In my early childhood I alway thought I was Punjabi Sikh.

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i think they are some of the kindest people and i love their accent. i was on the dog'n bone to vodaphone this morning and the guy was irish and i kept him talking for ages coz i loved listening to his irish lilt :o

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Thank you Surly - you've hit it dead on. I wonder - would everyone on here who had children born in the US, want them to claim no connection at all with the UK? Do you not see how traditions or pride of one's heritage sticks around? I don't understand the insistence that one's past is completely irrelevant.

So what if someone says they are Irish-American? That means they have a fondness for that country, their history links to that country, and it serves as a part of their identity. Is it really preferable to wipe out all signs of one's heritage?

Diversity is one of the things that makes American interesting - it doesn't make sense to claim that everyone's experience is or should be the same.

Sorry for the rant - but I really don't get the attitude regarding this and find it quite sad.

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it really hasn't ever bothered me one way or the other until this was brought up on expats but thinking about it the americans need to move on...if they were born here then they are american. on meeting someone i don't want to know all about their heritage for goodness sake....they were born american and that's it, end of story for me.

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They are good sort's mostly and I was alway's happy to do relief work in an Irish Pub :)

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Sounds like you'll be in for a shock when you go back to the UK.
Unless you're planning of going to some isolated spot where no foreigner has gone before.

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same as my DH, likely his Mum's side came over from Ireland due to the Famine.

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She does have a house over there and goes home more than a few time's a year.

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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27838

:D

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chalk it up to a cultural difference

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There are a lot of different people of different ethnic background in the UK, not many I think would hang the title True Brit.

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So is now the time that I bring up that I'm 3/8 Swedish? :p;)

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I think I met him in the "Edinburgh Castle" here in San Francisco.

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oh yes i do.

tks for the karma btw for my post about tipping :)

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Wow - if you get wedding and shower invites - you must be fabulous tippers! ;)