if the irish are (correctly) identified as a historically oppressed ethnicity and we use the current one drop rule 95% of white americans will become minorities overnight
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People act like they are really down with St. Paddy but can't name all the Lucky Charm shapes


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oh, you’re Irish? then name five potatoes
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ACKSHUALLY, one reason the potato blight was so devastating in Ireland because one particular kind of potato was so heavily relied on. I think. But there did use to more varieties grown for food than are now commercially dominant. So So yes do have >4 types yes likely a good thi
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I always found it mildly funny when US-Americans told me that they were German when, to me as a German, it is a rather strange idea to think of it as some sort of ethnicity/heritage rather than a nationality.
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americans really like talking about the places their ancestors came from, everyone has a story we love places we will never see ourselves
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Alright fine I'll come clean: my "irish heritage" came to ireland via cromwell's army
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I don't think I'd ever up front call myself Irish, but American. If you probed, I'd tell you that my ancestors were, and I would show you thier old housepic.twitter.com/VNe43m2Ug7
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I've always been 1/8 Irish with red hair to show for it, and I can't think of a time when this has been convenient for me.
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not even in st patricks day?
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To who? Irish people? We are in on it and more than happy to use that shit. See brexit and symbolic votes by yere congress telling britain to play nice. See all the money we pour into patrick's day promotion.
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