Hi guys it’s me again (guy from video in the white jacket) Americans I love you deep down but please stop giving your money to Irish tourism they will just rip you off. start giving your money to ME instead so I can make cultural documentaries like this one and buy myself new clothes because I need them✨ if you’d like to support you can do so via the buy me a coffee link in the description
@@ZechsMerquise73considering no European countries are settler colonies like the US that literally depended on immigration then ye we like them fine. We just don't have the same history.
*AN AMERICA FREIND ASKED ME* "My grandmother is from Northern Ireland and my grandfather is from Ireland, when I visit Ireland will they think I'm British or Irish?" "They will most definitely think you are American:"
@@crunch1757I am not sure about the Irish, but Latin Americans of any country can tell pretty easily an American of Latin American descent and it’s not really because of looks or anything like that. In most cases, they’ll barely be able to speak in their parents’ language but most times will be able to understand conversation, they will often have this racializing perception of Latin Americans (there are regions with more white people, other regions with more black people, but mestizos are pretty much everywhere in higher or lower percentage) and ask or say things that don’t really make that much sense in our cultural environment (No, you cannot be more or less Latin American than me just because of trait x, y, z you have which you associate with Latin American people and yes, I had a situation where an American guy just straight up said he was more Brazilian than me, a guy born and raised in Brazil until adulthood, because he watches more soccer/football games than I do)
America is full of immigrants. It’s just people trying to find out where their ancestors came from.. nationality is different than ethnicity, if you come to America you’ll find that people with Irish heritage have different traditions than someone with African heritage and yet they are both American. It’s not because they want to be European, it’s that there is a clear distinction between the two. I think Europeans have a hard time grasping the concept of a nation full of 3rd and 4th generation citizens that still have ties to their ancestry.
A guy with an American accent refused to serve my sister in a bar in Boston because of her English accent. But we have Irish great grandparents, making us probably about as Irish as him... (i.e not Irish at all.)
I'm Scottish from Glasgow and when I was in Boston they were all giving me free shit because "Hey that guy drinks for free tonight, he's Irish like us". Needless to say, I didn't shatter their illusions or point out that they don't know what an Irish accent sounds like.
@@NeillWylieIt baffles me how often Americans get the accents mixed up. I say this as an American (though my father was born and raised in Scotland) but they really are fairly distinct accents.
Oh, it is a real problem in the States. Jimmy says he is Irish, but his last name is Jankowski. He is 8% Irish and proud of it, but couldn't tell you anything about Poland and his 92% Polish heritage.
It could be Jimmy had an abusive Polish dad and equally abusive Polish mom, the only one that sheltered him during childhood was his distantly related Irish grandma.
I think you are reading things into it that aren't there. This guy has done other videos where he makes comments about groups of people while people stand there without saying anything.
"Roast" is too strong a word in this context. He was not criticizing or mocking these people personally. They are just props. He probably asks people to stand there without saying anything while he says what he wanted to say.
I suffered a tirade of anti-British abuse about how the British slaughter Irish babies in their cots on a daily basis from an ‘Irish’ America while I was in California. Turns out her Great Grandfather -one of them - was from Ireland, allegedly. I was born in England, my parents were born in England, I have an English accent. I’d say I was English. All of my great Grandparents were born in Ireland, though, plus one grandfather - so I am at least 350% more Irish than she was…. 🙄
Always seems the biggest IRA supporters I see online are American whose nan was 3% Irish and don't actually know anything about the situation at all lol
It's such an odd phenomenon because they're so patriotic at the same time. I have Irish grandparents, my dad spent time in both Ireland & England growing up, I literally have an Irish passport but I was born & raised in London - I'm English. Been to Ireland several times & strangely enough never been abused for being English either 😂
If you test your blood you'll find out you are Irish. You're not English just because you were born there or have an English accent. If you think otherwise then tell me who is more English, you or the baby girl born to Somali immigrants in an East London hospital this week. Embrace your ethnicity. The Irish need you right now.
What’s worse if you are/ were dating somebody from Ireland and 8/10times some AHole intrudes on your date to tell you about their family history. And your Irish date politely nodding her head.
Great. If you don't want to listen then don't. We are an ancient, proud, noble people. The snooty hubris of some naysayers should just be ignored. From my own experience, the worst offenders are the cutewhores whose families managed to avoid taking the boat.
I’m Welsh, and one time my sister and I were on holiday in Washington DC, and we were chatting amongst ourselves in Welsh, and a lady (who was American just to clarify) came up to us and said “Excuse me, I couldn’t help but notice you’re speaking Celtic, my family is Irish, where in Ireland are you from?”
Ho-hum. This is intentionally misinterpreting a person's meaning when they say they "are" Irish, meaning that they ARE of Irish ancestry. I thank my Irish ancestors for leaving that mean country.
Over on the AncestryDNA subreddit, there are daily posts from sad or confused Americans who have taken the DNA test, and discovered they don't actually have any measurable Irish DNA after all. And grandma clearly wasn't actually full-blood Cherokee. As they don't have any Indigenous genes either. It clearly is a heck of a shock for many.
Those commercial DNA tests are mostly bollocks anyway, but it's not too surprising. Most Americans either choose their ethnicity from their surname, or if it's an unpopular one like English or Hungarian or something, they go for the most recent popular ethnic name. Now, surnames are handed down the male line more frequently than DNA is, so you are always going to get some big mismatches between name and DNA in a place like the USA.
Most of us don’t need a DNA test because every name in our ancestral line is Irish and we can easily find when and where our ancestors were born. It’s honestly funny how mad it makes y’all that we are Irish especially because our identity is responsible for a large part of your economy.
@@gyorkshire257 The DNA tests are not bollocks. They can literally trace back the town that your ancestors lived in 400 years ago and show a direct line from person to person. I had Czech ancestry and it showed me the exact region of Czechia and the towns in Bohemia.
No, they can't do that. Anybody who is telling you that is lying, unless they are comparing your DNA to that of a 400 year old body dug up from consecrated ground.@@laptv2144
Americans hear everything. Americans expect non-Americans to be disrespectful so they don't say anything but I would like to see you try that on American soil.
Yes, when the ancient celts talked about "thin places" and portals to the spirit realm, anthropologists finally discovered what they REALLY meant was Krispie Kreme
@@texbigman2-202That could be the reboot for the tv show Foreign Exchange on rte early 2000's, it was teleporting people from Ireland to Australia. It could do with a reboot plus time travel is basically a donut when you think about it 😂
I can relate as a Norwegian. As a Norwegian living in the countryside I've always met these Americans coming over here to find the farm where their great grandfather was born. To find their heritage and roots. And I've always admired them, having heritage and roots, so in inspiration I decided one day to take the bus and see the farm where my great grandfather was born, which is about 30 minutes from here. As I stepped out of the bus I was gripped with tears. I slowly walked down towards the farm, knocked on the door and said with a strong American accent that hi my name was John, I'm from Minnesota and my great grandfather came from that farm. They showed me their traditional clothes, instruments and traditional food and we all felt so close, like we were distantly related. Which we were. And that's how I got in touch with my roots as an American with strong Norwegian heritage. I didn't even know I was American before that, I've lived in Norway all my life and don't even have anyone in my family from across the pond.
My aunt used to tell me stories all the time about how Irish we were. 2 decades and a DNA test later shows 90% mix of German and Austro-Hungarian. There wasn’t a lick of Irish in those results 😂
@@labt8194 I don’t know how the test works, it wasn’t even mine it was my brothers. That’s just what I remember him telling me. Regardless, still no Irish.
There's nothing worse for an English man than being in a New York irish pub/bar and surrounded by aggressive Americans who think they are Irish,who blame me and my friends for occupying their far away home that they dont come from 😂
@@batemanboi9672 Blaming people generations down the line is stupid. They had nothing to do with it. Get a grip, you don't hear the english mouthing off at the danish and swedish for invading do you?
Fun fact in 1850 the population of Ireland was about 5 million Catholic Irish natives (excluding Protestants as a proxy for English settlers) and about 1 million Catholic Irish immigrated to the US during the great famine, or about 20% of the entire Catholic Irish population. In America with better access to food and resources, these Catholic Irish Americans were able to have larger families than those who remained in Ireland, thus there are more Americans of Irish heritage than in Ireland itself. The AOH member body speaks for itself :)
I too come from a family that, as I was growing up, told me I was Irish. Despite being born and raised in northeast Philadelphia we still sang Irish songs and gatherings and my cousins did Irish dance. I found out later that our grandmother was full Irish but our grandfather was half Irish and half French. Now I smoke cigarettes and wear a beret and ride my bike around with a stale baguette in the basket.
This was the funniest thing I've seen in quite some time. Especially the bit of the guy who found out about Ireland not being part of the UK from Netflix. 😂 I can also confirm than many Americans think they are Italian in a similar manner.
italian american is an entire culture though. a bunch of americans with italian heritage have grandparents or parents from italy. obviously their experiences won’t be the same as being born and raised in italy but its just as valid nonetheless.
@@elemar5 Maybe we should do a study on people like you... ...People too afraid to say their racist thoughts out loud and post them on the Internet for brownie points from like-minded pillsbury doughboys.
@@jumantewashington8715 The 1916 Proclamation had several authors, including Pearse. Many academics and historians regard Sean McDermott as having had the most influence on the document. But besides that, I’d be interested to know, What is a “plastic Paddy” ?
Hey, I LIKE Americans that think they're Irish. They're really, really easy to pick up. You just teach them like 3 words of Gaelic and they're all over you. I'm not even Irish, I'm Scottish, but they don't know the difference...
As an American, I grew up with a friend like this, who did make being Irish a huge part of his identity lol it was never a point of contention between us but I always found it really silly.
if he had real irish heritage then why is it silly? Americans don't have any good culture besides slavery and capitalism so, most of us like to reconnect back with heritage that means something more than that.
@@Ramberta I can understand that but as a non-american, it feels quite disingenuous and dishonest for people to claim an understanding of a culture that they have no relation to. Ethnicity is just a very weird idea for people to grasp on to and as Europeans, it just seems needlessly divisive.
There literally seems like no way to win for Americans and Canadians. Mention your heritage? “Well you don’t even understand the language or culture!”. Learn more about the culture and language? “Why are Americans so obsessed with being ____??”. Some folks act like they want Americans/Canadians to forget all about their heritage and just be European’s idea of a stereotypical “American”, when American culture has been created by a blend of all these different ethnic groups. Including the one Europeans seem to want them to forget about.
They don't seem to understand our nation was literally founded on the ideals of the European Enlightenment and Christianity and we've been maintaining that tradition for 250 years with only 27 Amendments to the original Constitution. I also feel really bad for Canada having to constantly explain they aren't American. It's ironic, they don't like Americans referring to themselves as Irish but assume Canadians are just like their neighbors.
As a Filipino who lives in Canada, who grew up all his life in the Philippines before moving, and who has a slight pet peeve for diaspora people… I can say you have a very good point. North American countries have blended cultures that are unique on their own, and there is nothing wrong with declaring and owning your heritage while at the same time be Canadian or American. I think what people from the original lands like me are annoyed by is the arrogance and superficiality of some Americans when it comes to their heritage. Like they go on all about how they’re Irish or they’re Filipino and yet not share the same experience, trials, issues, or cultural norms as we do in the motherland, not learning these sincerely, yet insist on saying they’re from such and such. Some going as so far as trying to impose their “idea” of what the country of their heritage should be without even considering the people from there. I’m not including Canadians in this, because from my experience, while they are proud of their ethnic heritage, they are way more in touch with their countries. They are way more grounded in that they emphasize they are Canadian as well as such and such. There isn’t that arrogance at all, they’re not willing to pretend.
Fun fact - By 1860, there were 7* million German immigrants living in the US. This is by far and away the largest single ethnic group in the states (i still believe it is currently). In comparison, there were under a million Irish in the country at that time. Guess some events in the 20th century dropped the enthusiasm to be seen as German. * Edited as got figure wrong
What’s your sources for those statistics ? In 1860 the population of the United States was just over 30 million. You’re saying that almost one third of the entire population were German immigrants ? Also, you’re figure for the number of Irish immigrants seems quite low, considering the huge immigration from Ireland during the famine, and the following years.
@@davidpryle3935 Huge imigration sure, but from a smaller starting population. Numbers of Irish there look about right, 1 million ish Irish emigrated during the famine in total.
@@davidpryle3935 i know shit about statistics, but considering that germans are a much larger ethnic group than irish (if you consider all germans as one ethnic group they have been the secondlargest european ethnic group for quite some time, afaik only russians are more). so even if a much larger percentage of irish emigrated than germans, it sounds reasonable that the total number of german emigrees was higher.
@@lucas82 It's very odd. My very English uncle went on about his Scottish ancestry, but although he had the name, Watson, I couldn't trace any Scottish in his family at all! His dad (my grandad) was a quarter Irish (!) and my nan was English.
My great, great grandfather came to canada in the late 19th century, then my great grandfather married some canadian woman and moved to chicago where my grandfather married some american woman, then my dad married my american mom whose grandparents came from Germany and Poland. So I'm basically Irish. just look at my name
My heritage is a mix of Ukrainian, German and a percentage of Polish that I can't figure out. But I now identify as Irish because of my last name of my husband. Just kidding. All jokes aside, he can trace his portion of Irish roots back from Canada to the US but due to a fire that burned records can't trace them back to Ireland. He's a mix of Irish, Welsh, English and German roots. Not too sure if he has Scottish roots as well... So when our kids ask we say that they are Canadian but not Indigenous Canadian. But they also like to identify as Irish. 🤦🏼♀️
@@nadinegriffin5252yeh I know that fire burned my g gmas records. IRA burned the census records office during the civil war. Hence my mum auntie and uncle cant get an Irish passport.
I (born in Ireland) once got into a drunken debate while in a bar in America with an American who tried to tell me he was Irish because his great granda was from Ireland lmao
I wonder if these people realize, their grandfathers told their dads they were Irish and the dads said they were Irish, so on and so on. If you don't want to have a brotherhood with those people that's fine, but that makes you the asshole, not them.
Englishman here...Love this! They tend to come here, also (perhaps on their way to Ireland) and tell us how Irish they are, and that they can't wait to visit their homeland! When you ask them if their parents are Irish, they ALWAYS say: "No, but there was an Irish person in my family in the late 1800s." You have to love the Americans.
@@estbgti424 With all due respect, this is my interest. We did stand alone for two years...but not really. We were helped by our Commonwealth countries, and helped by resistance fighters. President Roosevelt really wanted to help, but after the horrors of WW1, the US people didn't. He did ensure that a lot of aid came our way. Admittedly, the US only entered WW2 as Germany declared war on them the day after Pearl Harbour. The US could have confined their operations to the Pacific, but they elected to get involved throughout the world, and it has to be said that we couldn't possibly have opposed Germany without the US. If you were to examine some parallel universe where the US kept to the Pacific only, then you might see a collaboration between Russia and Britain. However, D Day might never have happened, and Germany could have got the atom bomb first.
@@estbgti424 ??? Ireland was one of the few countries to remain neutral up through the end of WW2. You can easily look it up. Y'all saw the Nazis and went "hmmm I can't decide if these guys are bad or not"
I’m Scottish so you’d think I’m completely unaffiliated but I’m sick of Irish Americans hearing my accent and then start asking where in Ireland I’m from because their great grandmother was from cork.
@@rachelcookie321 you dont sound very tolerant of people who arent trying to be malicious, in fact you sound petty, and if you are going to be bent out of shape about something, maybe it should be the fact that all of your countries in the british isles are being taken over while you do nothing about it? hows your "new" leader working out? really for your people huh? have another cookie, maybe all the bad men will go away, or are you pretending that everything is just wonderful?
Great video man and fantastic to bump into yourself today right after we were talking about cultural comedy at lunch! Again great work you are doing and in the tradition of top-drawer truths as revealed through the comedic experience!
I'm a different breed of american, I'm an american that thinks he's english. ground breaking new discovery of self identity, I came into ireland and started spouting unionist talking points and calling the locals ethnic slurs, because it's more fun.
I'm English, but ¼ Irish on my dad's side. My brother and I are entitled to Irish citizenship, and have been looking for the documents for over a decade. But I'm uncomfortable saying I'm "Irish" and just say "British" instead. I have several American friends who say they're Irish, but their last living Irish relative died in like, 1900 😂😂
@@chrisy6707 Yes of course I can. But why bother when I can just say "British"? The whole point of my comment was that fixating on your heritage as your identity is an incredibly bizarre thing, and something pretty much solely northern Americans do.
@@LilyGrace95 Yes I guess the only reason or time to say you are Irish is when accepting an Irish Passport, for travel purposes. It does seem that Northern Americans are far more concerned about being Scottish or Irish that people living in Scotland or Ireland.
Quite a big difference between someone whose ancestors left Ireland 200 years ago vs someone whose father is from Tyrone. That guy from Connecticut was legally an Irish citizen the day he was born. Indeed most countries - not though the US - grant citizenship on blood/parentage not where you are born.
Ah yes. A guy told me he was a quarter Irish once. I asked if that meant one of the his potential dads was Irish and he attempted to punch me in the face.
Its because in the US people identify with the heritage of there genetic background. Go to NY/NJ and alot of people will identify as Irish or Italian. They aren't saying that they are Irish or Italian citizens they are just saying thats there main cultural background. When you are a country of immigrants of course you are going to hang on to your origins. No reason to shame them, especially since there ancestors and relatives who came from those countries are the ones who encourage them to identify with there country of origin.
@@Jorge-dw8pbthank you!! I’m so sick of people harping on Americans solely because they don’t understand the background context of what we mean when we say we’re Irish or what have you. If only people bothered to do an ounce of research in something they don’t get but of course that’d be asking for too much
@@Jorge-dw8pbI’ve never understood why some Irish people have a problem with Irish-Americans identifying as “Irish”, because they are Irish. Sure, their nationality is American but their ancestry is still Irish, regardless of whether they lived there or not. People from Ireland, Italy etc should be proud that the diaspora still embrace their roots. Just because they were born in the USA, that doesn’t doesn’t make them fake Irish/Italian etc. I’ve never liked the phrase “Plastic paddy”
Yeah... no. Citizenship is not the same thing as being Irish. Neither is heritage. It's not about blood or legal documents, it's about lived experiences.
@@emilyosullivan6770 If he has family back home, I’d speculate he spent much of his “lived experience” in Ireland as well. It seems like you’re fixating more on something like an accent. I know people who speak Irish with an American accent, and thus can speak to monolingual Irish speakers while the average Irish person cannot. I know Irish people who have moved to Australia, the UK, or the US who lose their accent after a while. Dual citizenship and émigré communities are a real thing, and I’ve known Americans who were born in the States and lack the American accent, keeping their parents’ foreign accent due to being more socialized with said communities. Even to this day the “lived experience” of many Irish is emigrating for economic opportunities, hell this has become a stereotype in Irish culture.
@@emilyosullivan6770there are different meanings of what it is to belong to a nation. I'm Celtic no matter the fact I was born in Australia. Conversely, there are Irish-born people who go through the citizenship ceremony and become Australian. The majority of Australians are migrants, so if we didn't consider them to be authentic Australians, we'd have very few Australians. Does this person stop being Irish when they become Australian? No. Are they also Australian? Yes, because we're talking about different things. Ethnicity/heritage, citizenship, lived experiences, etc are all different but perfectly valid ways of identifying with a nation, hence we have different types of nationalism (civic, ethno, etc)
If that guy’s dad is Irish then he’s Irish too no? If you go to school with someone who’s dad is from like Greek, you still consider them a Greek person.
You're gonna miss them and their money the more your countries turn into 3rd world hell holes from all the "refugees". Americans spend their money and go home. Mohammad from Algeria moves into an apartment with his 10 kids and tells you he's scottish now.
We actually get plenty of "Scottish" Americans trying to "reconnect with their roots". But fortunately our government came up with a cunning trap known as "Inverness" specifically designed to lure tourists to the least densely populated region of Scotland where the second hand cringe they cause is minimised. I wouldnt blame you for not knowing this if youre from the central belt, its just a testament to how successful the plan was.
lol okay have fun staying poor in Scotland then. I’m sure all the immigrants you’re importing will be more helpful than pesky Americans with their money 😂
I know we laugh at it but as a Dubliner living in the city centre American tourists are very friendly and they love a chat. They seem genuinely happy to be visiting Ireland, other tourists can be miserable.
So true. I was a tour guide for a while... Americans were lately sound and enjoying their time. French, Australian and Indian tourists were a huge PITA.
@@peterlarkin762 the French are a different breed altogether as much as I love visiting France. My favourite pub mulligans gets plenty of tourists - when Americans sit beside me I know I’ll get a warm friendly chat 👍🏻
As an Irishman living in Massachusetts, 50 per cent of my day consists of Americans telling me the entire history of their family tree. For the love of god I dont give a fuck that your Granddad was from Galway please let me drink in peace.
@@tomconnolly9895Ask them what part of Galway. Most haven’t a clue. But if they do, tell them it’s known as dump full of prostitutes and inbreeding. Usually stops them asking any more questions.
@@tomconnolly9895 One of the big disconnects is that the Irish seem to be about the hardest people to have a conversation with, at least for an American. So guarded, you can meet an American on a bus and they'll tell you all about their son's struggle with addiction and how it relates to their grandfather's blah blah blah. I get that that's horrifying to an Irish person but that's what we're like. Also, especially in a place like Boston, ethnicity is what we have instead of a well-defined class hierarchy. We pretend we don't have classes here but historically the Irish were the servant class for the wealthy yankees.
@BCThunderthud I don't think Irish people are any more guarded than other Europeans, it's just that Americans tend to overshare very personal information about themselves way too quickly with strangers and that's very strange to Irish people. I can't count the amount of times an American person has told me they were having marital problems, finanical problems, were recovering Alcoholics/drug addicts, or were on meds, within minutes of meeting me for the first time. I think to myself "Why are you telling me this?" It's a very awkward position to be put in. Don't get me wrong I like Americans and get on well with them, but that was a major culture shock for me. I think Americans (and the world in general) thinks Irish people are extremely outgoing and gregarious, when in reality we are mostly introverted.
@@BCThunderthud You’re having the wrong conversation. Personal lives usually stay personal here. Americans tend to have whole a narrative for their life story that they tell to anyone who’ll listen. And hey, if you’re a Vietnam vet who set up a recording studio in the 1980s before eventually buying an island in the Florida Keys and setting up a sanctuary for marine life, keep talking. I’m interested. But if you’re a dentist with a large, dull family and an interest in hunting turkeys, I don’t care.
I think there's just a confusion of terms here. Since America is an ethnically diverse nation, ethnic origins have always served as identifying categories. Irish Americans are Irish in the same sense that African Americans are African; it denotes a shared historical connection and thus an ethnic identity. But when Irish Americans go to Ireland, this becomes less relevant and (rightly) doesn't make sense to people who were born and raised in Ireland. I don't call myself Irish when I'm in Ireland but I do when I'm in America.
Thats actually great point that I havent thought of. I get why other Americans might be frustrated by it though. In Ireland we typically dont view nationality as something that can be inherited like race or ethnicity. instead we typically view nationality as something that is acquired over a long period of time by being immersed in the culture and zeitgeist of a company.
Tbh, leave Irish Americans alone. Many of them have Irish DNA which rests their case. I find most Irish people a bit snooty about this issue, especially those who were never "forced" to take the boat. Jesus, we have totally lost the run of ourselves. Most of my family went to US to make a better life, and succeeded. Thanks America. I hope this hubis of the modern native Irish just goes away. Reality check: we're not that special. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Always confused me this, my grandad was Irish, I have an obviously Irish surname, a quite famous one, but I was born in England thus I'm English, even though I have very strong roots and bloodline from Ireland I would NEVER call myself Irish.
@@Ramberta his heritage is mostly English. I also had a grandfather from Ireland but the only Irish heritage I have is my surname and possibly my pale complexion.
@@lkidds4222 same here, but that doesn't mean the Irish heritage doesn't exist! Just because I don't call myself Irish in most contexts doesn't mean the heritage doesn't exist...
it's strange that they're so loudly proud to be American yet desperate to identify as anything else 🤣 Edit: I hope you guys don’t think I’m reading your replies…
@@jamieclifford5491Both the transatlantic slave trade and nuclear weapons were by a certain group from the middle east though that are a tiny minority so you can't blame whites or Asians for that. Obviously you can't blame black who were enslaved either but you can blame the blacks who sold them into slavery in Africa. The vast majority of Americans in the past had nothing to do with the slave trade or nuclear weapons so have nothing to be ashamed of (then or now). Plus almost all races in America have been slaves. Also most countries that all Americans came from have been affected by slavery and some still are today.
@@folksurvival a group in the Middle East is responsible for slavery in America and the use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? What is it you’re trying to say?
as an american with a mother who grew up in ireland, i don't associate myself either as an "irish tourist" or as a person returning to the "motherland," it's just a place i go to see my family 👍 whenever i visit, i'm located mostly in downings, in the northwest part of ireland, and it's always nice to see the countryside because it really is more beautiful than what we have in america. if i ever do want to move, it would probably be to ireland (dual citizenship moment,) even if it rains all the time
They will “prove” they are by telling you how their grandmother made them spaghetti with meatballs (not an Italian dish for any Americans reading this) every Sunday! 😂
They have Italian ancestry. They don't literally think they are Italian as in from Italy. They are American and quite fine with that. Unbelievable you guys think when Americans reference their ethnic heritage that you literally think we mean we are from these foreign countries.
It's a fascinating perspective that they have when it comes to cultural or national identity. My grandfather is from Ireland but you've never catch me ever saying I was Irish as a result, neither would my mum try to claim she was, we'd say "My grandad/dad is Irish." Going further back I've got ancestors from Russia and Italy, but I couldn't keep a straight face attempting to say "I'm Russian-Italian-Irish". Does any other country in the world do that?
It's because American is not an ethnicity. In Ireland, Irish is a nationality because it is a Nation State deeply dependent on an identity derived from ethnicity.
At the very least it’s the only country where people are this vocal about claiming the wrong national identity. The general consensus in Europe, and I assume most places, is that you have to grow up in the culture and speak the local language to be able to claim it. I don’t understand why Americans are so loud and proud of their country, yet desperately seek to be not American
My great great grandfather was one of those who fled to America, his son came back to Britain and for some reason decided to hold up in England, then popped some sprogs, and then I eventually arrive, and no doubt to the rotational chagrin of my Irish ancestors, as a proud Englishman. But I'm only proud because it'll annoy others, in reality I couldn't give a fuck, it's not as if anyone chooses the geographical location of their own birth. Like what, is anyone tugging on the umbilical like reigns and guiding their mother to another fucking continent out of a desire not to be French? Wait, I imagine that desire would certainly be intense enough. The mother probably wouldn't even need the guidance though, who would want to bring another French into existence, ugh...
@@hectorcot597Aussies and Kiwis don't have this obsession. They're in the same boat as Americans, but are more than happy to proclaim themselves nothing but Australians and Kiwis, regardless of their European heritage or otherwise. This truly is an American phenomenon.
It really just comes down to cultural misunderstanding + naivete. When Americans tell each other things like "I"m Irish," or "I'm Irish and Italian," we know what we mean; we're talking ancestry, not nationality. It's the whole "melting pot" thing. A while back, different immigrant groups had their own communities and everything... it's become somewhat ingrained in us. Problem is that this doesn't make sense to someone from another country, whose place of origin, for the most part, IS their ancestry. And Americans are so used to the way we understand it, that we don't consider this when we do actually travel somewhere. So, cultural misunderstanding. It does indeed get annoying though, when some of these Irish-Americans have zero idea of what Ireland is actually like, or that the Irish-American thing they like isn't an Irish thing, etc. At that point, it's on them.
@@Xiiiiky2H it is actually kind of a gross sentiment for those who are descendent of the survivors that were able to stay to deny outright the ethnicity of those who were forced to leave. the great hunger wasn't that far in the past. Its one thing to poke fun at some of the ignorant American tourist who try to appropriate a culture so they can center themselves while on vacation but its another thing entirely to finish the job the British started all those years ago by acting as if because our ancestors were expelled from the land that their kin will one day be told that their generational trauma has no right to exist, that all the songs and stories, and hopes of our ancestors for us to return aren't valid and should i dare say be cleansed from our heart.
@@jeffreygarty8214It’s really mainly just funny to wind up Americans claiming to be Irish - just for the Craic like. But sure, sure you absolutely hold these things dearly. What is a bit offensive though is that Irish-American culture is it’s own thing, and split off from Irish culture 200 odd years ago. I grew up in N.Ireland during the troubles, I don’t mind the Irish-American thing at all, but people claiming to be Irish and thinking generational trauma is anything like the actual trauma we went through is a bit offensive like.
@@Xiiiiky2Hthat's really stupid because as much as you want to see it as black and white and "you're no longer irish" a lot of people still have brought their cultural traditions over and kept them going. To say "you're just american" without considering that its more complicated then that, you just come off as bullheaded as americans do.
The 4:3 aspect ratio is sufficiently unusual, in these modern days of widescreen [mostly 16:9] YouYube videos, to be considered a weird aspect ratio. I approve. Namaste. 🙏
Telling you they are from a Clan that doesn't exist or adamant that they are highlanders when you know for a fact their surname is Lowland Scot or Borderer, right?
My grandma was from caithness, and I visit my cousins there now and again. I wear my proper highland dress kit for weddings, and I can understand Scots patter a reasonable percent of the time. But I'm not Scottish, really, I'm Scottish-American (among other backgrounds).
@@RossBradley-vd5rc not so fast, my friend is a Campbell and he was literally denied a drink because of his last name despite being American with an obvious Brooklyn accent. Everyone on here is throwing around generalizations
My mom was from Germany, but I was born in Dublin. Although I have a German passport and speak conversational German, I’m Irish. My cousins on my Irish dad’s side were born in Philadelphia, USA. Their own kids were also born in the US. When they visit us here in Ireland they find it odd that people considered them to be American only. To me they are “the American cousins”. They were born there, went to school there, follow American sports, have US passports, vote in U.S. elections, and speak with US accents. They lived the American experience. Living in Ireland would be difficult to navigate for them because it’s not what they know. However, I also can’t deny them having an Irish family history and having Irish cultural traditions passed down. So I understand their thought process in a country where most people have recent origins elsewhere. So, to me, the terms Irish-American and American of Irish descent make sense. But I see “Irish” as a legal nationality and a shared life experience.
Your "national identity" is really defined by where you grew up. I have Irish citizenship, but I grew up and still live in Britian. I think it would be rude of me to claim to be Irish - like I am trying to claim to be part of a nationality/culture that I have never participated in. Americans acknowledging their ancestry is fine, but claiming to actually be of that culture is the most extreme form of actual "cultural appropriation" possible.
Hi guys it’s me again (guy from video in the white jacket) Americans I love you deep down but please stop giving your money to Irish tourism they will just rip you off. start giving your money to ME instead so I can make cultural documentaries like this one and buy myself new clothes because I need them✨ if you’d like to support you can do so via the buy me a coffee link in the description
I fully agree sir
I'll send you a jacket.
whoa, theres you
do ya know micky bartlett
You disowned the diaspora in the video, we arent gonna give you money for the priviledge of being spat on.
I love how Americans always identify as their great-great-great-great grandmother's nationality but they don't like immigrants.
europeans on the other hand love immigration when its happening in someone else's country
Only if we learned to how to treat immigrants like the UK. They historically have been so kind to outsiders.
@@ZechsMerquise73considering no European countries are settler colonies like the US that literally depended on immigration then ye we like them fine. We just don't have the same history.
@@jackreilly4427UK and US is the same shit at the end of the day, US is just the turd the UK shat out that grew a life of its own
Haha exactly it’s so weird
*AN AMERICA FREIND ASKED ME* "My grandmother is from Northern Ireland and my grandfather is from Ireland, when I visit Ireland will they think I'm British or Irish?"
"They will most definitely think you are American:"
Your friend is eligible for Irish citizenship
@crunch1757 please don't encourage them...
@@crunch1757I am not sure about the Irish, but Latin Americans of any country can tell pretty easily an American of Latin American descent and it’s not really because of looks or anything like that. In most cases, they’ll barely be able to speak in their parents’ language but most times will be able to understand conversation, they will often have this racializing perception of Latin Americans (there are regions with more white people, other regions with more black people, but mestizos are pretty much everywhere in higher or lower percentage) and ask or say things that don’t really make that much sense in our cultural environment (No, you cannot be more or less Latin American than me just because of trait x, y, z you have which you associate with Latin American people and yes, I had a situation where an American guy just straight up said he was more Brazilian than me, a guy born and raised in Brazil until adulthood, because he watches more soccer/football games than I do)
When I visited Northern Ireland they thought I was English even though I’m 100% Californian and have never set foot in England.
@@TheNumberthat’s because they probably believe the American revolution was a mistake (if they are loyalists)
No one is more proud to be European than Americans
America is full of immigrants. It’s just people trying to find out where their ancestors came from.. nationality is different than ethnicity, if you come to America you’ll find that people with Irish heritage have different traditions than someone with African heritage and yet they are both American. It’s not because they want to be European, it’s that there is a clear distinction between the two. I think Europeans have a hard time grasping the concept of a nation full of 3rd and 4th generation citizens that still have ties to their ancestry.
And yet also the most hateful towards europeans when the opportunity arises to separate themselves from the country they claim they're from lmao
that's because we perfected European culture in North America, while you twats who stayed behind descended into socialism.
Yep. See that all the time with Anglo Americans.
Unless its English European
A guy with an American accent refused to serve my sister in a bar in Boston because of her English accent. But we have Irish great grandparents, making us probably about as Irish as him... (i.e not Irish at all.)
should've told him that, then he'd consider you family
Much like their current president Biden. Could he be any more blatant about how he hates the British?
I'm Scottish from Glasgow and when I was in Boston they were all giving me free shit because "Hey that guy drinks for free tonight, he's Irish like us". Needless to say, I didn't shatter their illusions or point out that they don't know what an Irish accent sounds like.
@@NeillWylieIt baffles me how often Americans get the accents mixed up. I say this as an American (though my father was born and raised in Scotland) but they really are fairly distinct accents.
@@ianbyrne465because they dont come across foreigners enough to differentiate.
Oh, it is a real problem in the States. Jimmy says he is Irish, but his last name is Jankowski. He is 8% Irish and proud of it, but couldn't tell you anything about Poland and his 92% Polish heritage.
We do not talk about what happened in the old country
@@japsperklee7473 what happend?
which is honestly a shame, because polish history and culture is fascinating as fuck
@@benjaminbittle8192 they don't know
It could be Jimmy had an abusive Polish dad and equally abusive Polish mom, the only one that sheltered him during childhood was his distantly related Irish grandma.
I love the way people just stand there with a little smile as he roasts them.
I think you are reading things into it that aren't there. This guy has done other videos where he makes comments about groups of people while people stand there without saying anything.
@@halk3 You just repeated what he said with more words. I think YOU'RE the one reading into things too much.
"Roast" is too strong a word in this context. He was not criticizing or mocking these people personally. They are just props. He probably asks people to stand there without saying anything while he says what he wanted to say.
People would do that whether they're oblivious, laughing along fully understanding, or just recognizing that they have no particular better option.
They're use to it @ trvmp n GOP n priests etc
I suffered a tirade of anti-British abuse about how the British slaughter Irish babies in their cots on a daily basis from an ‘Irish’ America while I was in California. Turns out her Great Grandfather -one of them - was from Ireland, allegedly. I was born in England, my parents were born in England, I have an English accent. I’d say I was English. All of my great Grandparents were born in Ireland, though, plus one grandfather - so I am at least 350% more Irish than she was…. 🙄
Always seems the biggest IRA supporters I see online are American whose nan was 3% Irish and don't actually know anything about the situation at all lol
It's such an odd phenomenon because they're so patriotic at the same time. I have Irish grandparents, my dad spent time in both Ireland & England growing up, I literally have an Irish passport but I was born & raised in London - I'm English. Been to Ireland several times & strangely enough never been abused for being English either 😂
The mobs in town
And the guns are out
And Louie knows what it's all about
If you test your blood you'll find out you are Irish. You're not English just because you were born there or have an English accent. If you think otherwise then tell me who is more English, you or the baby girl born to Somali immigrants in an East London hospital this week. Embrace your ethnicity. The Irish need you right now.
What’s worse if you are/ were dating somebody from Ireland and 8/10times some AHole intrudes on your date to tell you about their family history. And your Irish date politely nodding her head.
I visited Dublin this year and Temple Bar was literally at breaking point with retired Americans explaining how they're Irish to anyone who'd listen.
Great. If you don't want to listen then don't. We are an ancient, proud, noble people. The snooty hubris of some naysayers should just be ignored. From my own experience, the worst offenders are the cutewhores whose families managed to avoid taking the boat.
I fail to see the problem. Stick to the Hairy Lemon.
To be fair Temple Bar is a tourist trap. Get out of Jackeenland as soon as ye can
You'll consider any filthy black yoke off a boat last week Irish so be consistent.
Seek help kid @@johnno8586
I’m Welsh, and one time my sister and I were on holiday in Washington DC, and we were chatting amongst ourselves in Welsh, and a lady (who was American just to clarify) came up to us and said “Excuse me, I couldn’t help but notice you’re speaking Celtic, my family is Irish, where in Ireland are you from?”
Mega cringe.
😂😂😂😂
I’m Scottish, so just speaking English in my own accent is enough for people to ask what bit of Ireland I’m from.
Occupied Far East Ireland
who would’ve thought someone with the name thomasllewelynjones was Welsh 🤣
When I was in Ireland I asked an Irish lady what she thought of Americans that think they’re Irish. She laughed for like a full minute
Did ya meet her outside Burger King on Ó Connell St?
@@davidryan7613trinity college
@@gumbaa479 and she laughed for a full minute just in response to that.
Was she sniffing glue?
Ho-hum. This is intentionally misinterpreting a person's meaning when they say they "are" Irish, meaning that they ARE of Irish ancestry. I thank my Irish ancestors for leaving that mean country.
@@shaggybreeks😂
Being Scottish in America is so scary, everyone keeps assuming you are Irish, telling you they Irish, and then asking what the troubles were like
Probably didn't happen
In Canada, is not that different. Most Canadians, identify themselves as Scottish (mainly after the movie Braveheart).
There is a huge difference in Irish-Americans and Scottish-Americans but there is some blurring of the lines
Over on the AncestryDNA subreddit, there are daily posts from sad or confused Americans who have taken the DNA test, and discovered they don't actually have any measurable Irish DNA after all.
And grandma clearly wasn't actually full-blood Cherokee.
As they don't have any Indigenous genes either.
It clearly is a heck of a shock for many.
Those commercial DNA tests are mostly bollocks anyway, but it's not too surprising. Most Americans either choose their ethnicity from their surname, or if it's an unpopular one like English or Hungarian or something, they go for the most recent popular ethnic name. Now, surnames are handed down the male line more frequently than DNA is, so you are always going to get some big mismatches between name and DNA in a place like the USA.
Most of us don’t need a DNA test because every name in our ancestral line is Irish and we can easily find when and where our ancestors were born. It’s honestly funny how mad it makes y’all that we are Irish especially because our identity is responsible for a large part of your economy.
@@gyorkshire257 The DNA tests are not bollocks. They can literally trace back the town that your ancestors lived in 400 years ago and show a direct line from person to person. I had Czech ancestry and it showed me the exact region of Czechia and the towns in Bohemia.
No, they can't do that. Anybody who is telling you that is lying, unless they are comparing your DNA to that of a 400 year old body dug up from consecrated ground.@@laptv2144
Yep, my dad thought he had indigenous Canadian genes, but turns out he's just mostly Irish! Haha!
Good thing those Americans didn’t understand a word of what Frankie said
just sounded like a slurring drunk, i mean irishman.
@@CircumlunarFeasibilityFound the American
Oh, this one did....
Americans hear everything. Americans expect non-Americans to be disrespectful so they don't say anything but I would like to see you try that on American soil.
Fun fact, Krispy Kreme is the portal between America and Ireland. Frankie escaped it just in time before he was caught in a time warp
Or possibly caught in a time wrap. Which is a new junk food I have just imagined, involving an old fashioned doughnut rolled up in a pancake.
Yes, when the ancient celts talked about "thin places" and portals to the spirit realm, anthropologists finally discovered what they REALLY meant was Krispie Kreme
@@texbigman2-202That could be the reboot for the tv show Foreign Exchange on rte early 2000's, it was teleporting people from Ireland to Australia. It could do with a reboot plus time travel is basically a donut when you think about it 😂
@@texbigman2-202 But Krispie Kreme doughnuts are *awful*
You've clearly not been to the ulster American folk park in Tyrone. Shout out to your man in the video whos da is from Tyrone.
I can relate as a Norwegian. As a Norwegian living in the countryside I've always met these Americans coming over here to find the farm where their great grandfather was born. To find their heritage and roots. And I've always admired them, having heritage and roots, so in inspiration I decided one day to take the bus and see the farm where my great grandfather was born, which is about 30 minutes from here. As I stepped out of the bus I was gripped with tears. I slowly walked down towards the farm, knocked on the door and said with a strong American accent that hi my name was John, I'm from Minnesota and my great grandfather came from that farm. They showed me their traditional clothes, instruments and traditional food and we all felt so close, like we were distantly related. Which we were. And that's how I got in touch with my roots as an American with strong Norwegian heritage. I didn't even know I was American before that, I've lived in Norway all my life and don't even have anyone in my family from across the pond.
I envy you. I wish I could visit the farm where my grandfather grew up in. It's 20 minutes away, but they built a supermarket there now.
@@HamelinSong That's a touching story, imagine that, having ancestors from a supermarket. Which aisle did your grandfather come from? Tex-mex?
@@Nabium that was too good
@@anahata2009 At least I got free coffee and lefse.
@@Nabium I mean, we are from Florence, so I hope for the Vin Santo aisle.... That would be an iconinc reunion.
My aunt used to tell me stories all the time about how Irish we were. 2 decades and a DNA test later shows 90% mix of German and Austro-Hungarian. There wasn’t a lick of Irish in those results 😂
there is no such ethnicity as 'austro-hungarian'
@@labt8194 I don’t know how the test works, it wasn’t even mine it was my brothers. That’s just what I remember him telling me. Regardless, still no Irish.
Okay your aunt was stupid. That doesn’t change the real ancestry of other Irish Americans
then you have never heard of the austro-hungarian empire@@labt8194
Reminds me of one "Italian"-American girl on tiktok or smth, who took a dna test and it turned out she was more German than Italian.
As a 9th generation Irish-American this really spoke to me and my deep Irish roots.
You are American NOT Irish 🙄.. my ancestry goes back to the Plantagenets I do not consider myself Royal ..🤨🇬🇧
whoosh@@Ionabrodie69
Same here. My ex girlfriend's step mother was 2% Irish, and this really brought back emotional memories for me and my Irish roots too.
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Whoosh is right@@Ionabrodie69
There's nothing worse for an English man than being in a New York irish pub/bar and surrounded by aggressive Americans who think they are Irish,who blame me and my friends for occupying their far away home that they dont come from 😂
Thank fuck that nobody lived in the land thats now New York before all you guys arrived tho
Man it’s almost like the famine that is the reason the Irish ended up in NY was caused in part by your country of origin.
@@batemanboi9672 Blaming people generations down the line is stupid. They had nothing to do with it. Get a grip, you don't hear the english mouthing off at the danish and swedish for invading do you?
Yeah I wouldn’t mention burning down their capital either bud
Fun fact in 1850 the population of Ireland was about 5 million Catholic Irish natives (excluding Protestants as a proxy for English settlers) and about 1 million Catholic Irish immigrated to the US during the great famine, or about 20% of the entire Catholic Irish population. In America with better access to food and resources, these Catholic Irish Americans were able to have larger families than those who remained in Ireland, thus there are more Americans of Irish heritage than in Ireland itself. The AOH member body speaks for itself :)
I too come from a family that, as I was growing up, told me I was Irish. Despite being born and raised in northeast Philadelphia we still sang Irish songs and gatherings and my cousins did Irish dance. I found out later that our grandmother was full Irish but our grandfather was half Irish and half French. Now I smoke cigarettes and wear a beret and ride my bike around with a stale baguette in the basket.
Stale baguette can make some good stew.
This was the funniest thing I've seen in quite some time. Especially the bit of the guy who found out about Ireland not being part of the UK from Netflix. 😂
I can also confirm than many Americans think they are Italian in a similar manner.
And African Americans.
italian american is an entire culture though. a bunch of americans with italian heritage have grandparents or parents from italy.
obviously their experiences won’t be the same as being born and raised in italy but its just as valid nonetheless.
@@j1430tell me you missed the point without telling me you missed the point
@@elemar5 Maybe we should do a study on people like you...
...People too afraid to say their racist thoughts out loud and post them on the Internet for brownie points from like-minded pillsbury doughboys.
@@j1430Italians in the US are nothing like Italians overseas wtf are you on about.
It was only a matter of time before you addressed this issue.
You gave them plenty of opportunity to pack it in.
Is this an intentional reference to Jump Around?
Strange then that the Irish Americans are specifically mentioned in the foundation document of the Irish Republic, the 1916 Proclamation.
@@davidpryle3935Which was written by Pádraig Pearse-a "plastic Paddy".
@@jumantewashington8715 The 1916 Proclamation had several authors, including Pearse. Many academics and historians regard Sean McDermott as having had the most influence on the document. But besides that, I’d be interested to know, What is a “plastic Paddy” ?
All of the Irish diaspora are Plastic Paddies, according to the native-born gombeens.
Hey, I LIKE Americans that think they're Irish. They're really, really easy to pick up. You just teach them like 3 words of Gaelic and they're all over you.
I'm not even Irish, I'm Scottish, but they don't know the difference...
Is é an canán ceudna.
🤣
you've got plenty of indians living in the UK who don't speak hindi. does that make them "not indian"?
@@KellyMonk156 Do they practice and have basic understanding on hindi culture?
@@osscarfransson LOL gatekeeping ethnicity
As an American, I grew up with a friend like this, who did make being Irish a huge part of his identity lol it was never a point of contention between us but I always found it really silly.
Like Joe Biden who has both English and Irish heritage but fails to mention his English hertitage as Irish gets him more votes ffs.
if he had real irish heritage then why is it silly? Americans don't have any good culture besides slavery and capitalism so, most of us like to reconnect back with heritage that means something more than that.
@morini500dave The irony about Biden is that his English ancestors were working class and his Irish ancestors owned a lucrative architecture business
@@Ramberta I can understand that but as a non-american, it feels quite disingenuous and dishonest for people to claim an understanding of a culture that they have no relation to. Ethnicity is just a very weird idea for people to grasp on to and as Europeans, it just seems needlessly divisive.
@@Ramberta If you think Americans have no culture then you have not actually looked into it.
There literally seems like no way to win for Americans and Canadians. Mention your heritage? “Well you don’t even understand the language or culture!”. Learn more about the culture and language? “Why are Americans so obsessed with being ____??”. Some folks act like they want Americans/Canadians to forget all about their heritage and just be European’s idea of a stereotypical “American”, when American culture has been created by a blend of all these different ethnic groups. Including the one Europeans seem to want them to forget about.
They don't seem to understand our nation was literally founded on the ideals of the European Enlightenment and Christianity and we've been maintaining that tradition for 250 years with only 27 Amendments to the original Constitution.
I also feel really bad for Canada having to constantly explain they aren't American.
It's ironic, they don't like Americans referring to themselves as Irish but assume Canadians are just like their neighbors.
As a Filipino who lives in Canada, who grew up all his life in the Philippines before moving, and who has a slight pet peeve for diaspora people… I can say you have a very good point. North American countries have blended cultures that are unique on their own, and there is nothing wrong with declaring and owning your heritage while at the same time be Canadian or American.
I think what people from the original lands like me are annoyed by is the arrogance and superficiality of some Americans when it comes to their heritage. Like they go on all about how they’re Irish or they’re Filipino and yet not share the same experience, trials, issues, or cultural norms as we do in the motherland, not learning these sincerely, yet insist on saying they’re from such and such. Some going as so far as trying to impose their “idea” of what the country of their heritage should be without even considering the people from there.
I’m not including Canadians in this, because from my experience, while they are proud of their ethnic heritage, they are way more in touch with their countries. They are way more grounded in that they emphasize they are Canadian as well as such and such. There isn’t that arrogance at all, they’re not willing to pretend.
Fun fact - By 1860, there were 7* million German immigrants living in the US. This is by far and away the largest single ethnic group in the states (i still believe it is currently). In comparison, there were under a million Irish in the country at that time.
Guess some events in the 20th century dropped the enthusiasm to be seen as German.
* Edited as got figure wrong
It's sad
unless its oktoberfest and time to get DDDDDDDDDD-RUNK!!!
What’s your sources for those statistics ? In 1860 the population of the United States was just over 30 million. You’re saying that almost one third of the entire population were German immigrants ? Also, you’re figure for the number of Irish immigrants seems quite low, considering the huge immigration from Ireland during the famine, and the following years.
@@davidpryle3935 Huge imigration sure, but from a smaller starting population. Numbers of Irish there look about right, 1 million ish Irish emigrated during the famine in total.
@@davidpryle3935 i know shit about statistics, but considering that germans are a much larger ethnic group than irish (if you consider all germans as one ethnic group they have been the secondlargest european ethnic group for quite some time, afaik only russians are more). so even if a much larger percentage of irish emigrated than germans, it sounds reasonable that the total number of german emigrees was higher.
Some of them looked genuinely sad. Poor Yanks, as an Englishman who has delusions of being Scottish, they have my sympathy.
Why would an Englishman pretend to be Scottish, that's a step down, innit?
@@lucas82
It's very odd. My very English uncle went on about his Scottish ancestry, but although he had the name, Watson, I couldn't trace any Scottish in his family at all! His dad (my grandad) was a quarter Irish (!) and my nan was English.
@@Ian1-ff3vi
Thanks, Ian - didn't know that. My uncle even went to the trouble of finding his tartan.
It's a step up, geographically.@@lucas82
You should move up there and live out your delusions, it'd be great!
I have been waiting for this video. Thank you so much
My great, great grandfather came to canada in the late 19th century, then my great grandfather married some canadian woman and moved to chicago where my grandfather married some american woman, then my dad married my american mom whose grandparents came from Germany and Poland. So I'm basically Irish. just look at my name
Lmfao
Perfectly cromulent.
My heritage is a mix of Ukrainian, German and a percentage of Polish that I can't figure out. But I now identify as Irish because of my last name of my husband. Just kidding.
All jokes aside, he can trace his portion of Irish roots back from Canada to the US but due to a fire that burned records can't trace them back to Ireland. He's a mix of Irish, Welsh, English and German roots. Not too sure if he has Scottish roots as well...
So when our kids ask we say that they are Canadian but not Indigenous Canadian. But they also like to identify as Irish. 🤦🏼♀️
@@nadinegriffin5252yeh I know that fire burned my g gmas records. IRA burned the census records office during the civil war. Hence my mum auntie and uncle cant get an Irish passport.
You're very brave to admit you have Canuck ancestry.
For the first time ever I have absolutely zero doubt that these were just people you picked off the street
This is so well edited. What a treat! Thanks
I (born in Ireland) once got into a drunken debate while in a bar in America with an American who tried to tell me he was Irish because his great granda was from Ireland lmao
By that standard Che Guevara was more Irish as his granny was from Derry.
I wonder if these people realize, their grandfathers told their dads they were Irish and the dads said they were Irish, so on and so on. If you don't want to have a brotherhood with those people that's fine, but that makes you the asshole, not them.
Englishman here...Love this! They tend to come here, also (perhaps on their way to Ireland) and tell us how Irish they are, and that they can't wait to visit their homeland! When you ask them if their parents are Irish, they ALWAYS say: "No, but there was an Irish person in my family in the late 1800s." You have to love the Americans.
American here - that's an amazing story.
@@tripperdelaluna1
Well, we still love you (and are still thankful for WW2) even if we think you're all crazy.
@@barryfoster453I mean we're not that thankful for WW2, we did a lot by ourselves before they decided to help out.
@@estbgti424
With all due respect, this is my interest. We did stand alone for two years...but not really. We were helped by our Commonwealth countries, and helped by resistance fighters. President Roosevelt really wanted to help, but after the horrors of WW1, the US people didn't. He did ensure that a lot of aid came our way. Admittedly, the US only entered WW2 as Germany declared war on them the day after Pearl Harbour. The US could have confined their operations to the Pacific, but they elected to get involved throughout the world, and it has to be said that we couldn't possibly have opposed Germany without the US. If you were to examine some parallel universe where the US kept to the Pacific only, then you might see a collaboration between Russia and Britain. However, D Day might never have happened, and Germany could have got the atom bomb first.
@@estbgti424 ??? Ireland was one of the few countries to remain neutral up through the end of WW2. You can easily look it up. Y'all saw the Nazis and went "hmmm I can't decide if these guys are bad or not"
Thanks for doing this. I am neither American nor Irish, so I have no dog in this fight, but this still annoys me for no good reason.
you might want to look into that, see whats going on inside.
Here's one ☝️ @@CircumlunarFeasibility
I’m Scottish so you’d think I’m completely unaffiliated but I’m sick of Irish Americans hearing my accent and then start asking where in Ireland I’m from because their great grandmother was from cork.
@@rachelcookie321 you dont sound very tolerant of people who arent trying to be malicious, in fact you sound petty, and if you are going to be bent out of shape about something, maybe it should be the fact that all of your countries in the british isles are being taken over while you do nothing about it? hows your "new" leader working out? really for your people huh? have another cookie, maybe all the bad men will go away, or are you pretending that everything is just wonderful?
@@rachelcookie321don’t care
This is hilarious! I am Scottish I work in a hotel in Scotland and yeah every tourist season I have to keep my mouth shut and just smile 🤣
Good to know. We'll make sure to tell as many Americans as possible not to go to Scotland. Thanks for the heads up.
@@jmo8525 Haha, sulking is maybe the least Irish or Scottish reaction to being ribbed I can imagine. You sure you're not "English" like me?
Great video man and fantastic to bump into yourself today right after we were talking about cultural comedy at lunch! Again great work you are doing and in the tradition of top-drawer truths as revealed through the comedic experience!
Was nice to meet you too man! Thanks for the kind words
I'm a different breed of american, I'm an american that thinks he's english. ground breaking new discovery of self identity, I came into ireland and started spouting unionist talking points and calling the locals ethnic slurs, because it's more fun.
The English applaud this American....
Well mucker I'm proud to hear you found your new national Identity. We are embracing it too and would like to congratulate you with a free car
You sound simple.
@@cinilaknedalmsimply based
@@matchuBBGoh boy a free car sounds great!
the look on 0:49 when he slowly realises he's getting the piss taken out of him and not posing for a documentary on "totally irish, dude" culture
I'm English, but ¼ Irish on my dad's side. My brother and I are entitled to Irish citizenship, and have been looking for the documents for over a decade. But I'm uncomfortable saying I'm "Irish" and just say "British" instead. I have several American friends who say they're Irish, but their last living Irish relative died in like, 1900 😂😂
My friend got an Irish passport for easy EU travel, it sounded like a good idea. Can't you still say you are British with Irish heritage?
@@chrisy6707 Yes of course I can. But why bother when I can just say "British"? The whole point of my comment was that fixating on your heritage as your identity is an incredibly bizarre thing, and something pretty much solely northern Americans do.
@@LilyGrace95 Yes I guess the only reason or time to say you are Irish is when accepting an Irish Passport, for travel purposes. It does seem that Northern Americans are far more concerned about being Scottish or Irish that people living in Scotland or Ireland.
1/4? Oh geez 🙄🙄
@@xragdoll5662 ......? What's "oh jeez" about what I said?
Quite a big difference between someone whose ancestors left Ireland 200 years ago vs someone whose father is from Tyrone. That guy from Connecticut was legally an Irish citizen the day he was born. Indeed most countries - not though the US - grant citizenship on blood/parentage not where you are born.
Ah yes. A guy told me he was a quarter Irish once. I asked if that meant one of the his potential dads was Irish and he attempted to punch me in the face.
Hahsah😂😂
Massive lols! Jimmy Carr quality burn!
Not surprising, the Irish are known for being quick to brawl.
cool story bro
Irish peope are a big family. Each Irish is potentially related to each other
Americans who think they are Irish because their great-great-grandma had a shamrock tattoo"
Or their dad had a shamrock shake
Its because in the US people identify with the heritage of there genetic background. Go to NY/NJ and alot of people will identify as Irish or Italian. They aren't saying that they are Irish or Italian citizens they are just saying thats there main cultural background. When you are a country of immigrants of course you are going to hang on to your origins. No reason to shame them, especially since there ancestors and relatives who came from those countries are the ones who encourage them to identify with there country of origin.
@@Jorge-dw8pbthank you!! I’m so sick of people harping on Americans solely because they don’t understand the background context of what we mean when we say we’re Irish or what have you. If only people bothered to do an ounce of research in something they don’t get but of course that’d be asking for too much
@@Jorge-dw8pbI’ve never understood why some Irish people have a problem with Irish-Americans identifying as “Irish”, because they are Irish. Sure, their nationality is American but their ancestry is still Irish, regardless of whether they lived there or not. People from Ireland, Italy etc should be proud that the diaspora still embrace their roots. Just because they were born in the USA, that doesn’t doesn’t make them fake Irish/Italian etc. I’ve never liked the phrase “Plastic paddy”
Ethnicity never changes no matter what country you live in
what another beautiful piece of anthropology work from you
This was great, nicely done, cheers from America!
The kid who said his Dad is Irish has a point, as that would mean he has Irish citizenship.
Yeah... no. Citizenship is not the same thing as being Irish. Neither is heritage. It's not about blood or legal documents, it's about lived experiences.
Of course he's from CT tho lol
@@emilyosullivan6770 If he has family back home, I’d speculate he spent much of his “lived experience” in Ireland as well. It seems like you’re fixating more on something like an accent. I know people who speak Irish with an American accent, and thus can speak to monolingual Irish speakers while the average Irish person cannot. I know Irish people who have moved to Australia, the UK, or the US who lose their accent after a while. Dual citizenship and émigré communities are a real thing, and I’ve known Americans who were born in the States and lack the American accent, keeping their parents’ foreign accent due to being more socialized with said communities. Even to this day the “lived experience” of many Irish is emigrating for economic opportunities, hell this has become a stereotype in Irish culture.
@@emilyosullivan6770there are different meanings of what it is to belong to a nation. I'm Celtic no matter the fact I was born in Australia. Conversely, there are Irish-born people who go through the citizenship ceremony and become Australian. The majority of Australians are migrants, so if we didn't consider them to be authentic Australians, we'd have very few Australians. Does this person stop being Irish when they become Australian? No. Are they also Australian? Yes, because we're talking about different things. Ethnicity/heritage, citizenship, lived experiences, etc are all different but perfectly valid ways of identifying with a nation, hence we have different types of nationalism (civic, ethno, etc)
Irish is an ethnicity, can't argue with scientific facts kiddies.
You just described everyone in South Boston
You are an absolute fking legend! This so many times over!!
If that guy’s dad is Irish then he’s Irish too no? If you go to school with someone who’s dad is from like Greek, you still consider them a Greek person.
It's definitely different for non-white Americans
@@emilyl6746 Greeks are white.
on behalf of all of Scotland, thankyou Ireland for being a physical barrier between us and the Americans tryna "reconnect with their roots"
You're gonna miss them and their money the more your countries turn into 3rd world hell holes from all the "refugees". Americans spend their money and go home. Mohammad from Algeria moves into an apartment with his 10 kids and tells you he's scottish now.
We actually get plenty of "Scottish" Americans trying to "reconnect with their roots". But fortunately our government came up with a cunning trap known as "Inverness" specifically designed to lure tourists to the least densely populated region of Scotland where the second hand cringe they cause is minimised. I wouldnt blame you for not knowing this if youre from the central belt, its just a testament to how successful the plan was.
Incoming Americans in kilts and bagpipes shouting freedom 😂😂😂😂
lol okay have fun staying poor in Scotland then. I’m sure all the immigrants you’re importing will be more helpful than pesky Americans with their money 😂
No worries. You can keep yer soggy lochs and midges
I know we laugh at it but as a Dubliner living in the city centre American tourists are very friendly and they love a chat. They seem genuinely happy to be visiting Ireland, other tourists can be miserable.
So true. I was a tour guide for a while... Americans were lately sound and enjoying their time. French, Australian and Indian tourists were a huge PITA.
@@peterlarkin762 the French are a different breed altogether as much as I love visiting France. My favourite pub mulligans gets plenty of tourists - when Americans sit beside me I know I’ll get a warm friendly chat 👍🏻
I've usually found American tourists friendly too.
Despite the stereotype, American tourists are usually super nice
And they tip.
This is absolute gold!
If people struggle with the concept of Irish Americans, how will they cope with the new Nigerian/Indian Irish etc?
It's gonna be complicated
I have lots of African friends who have sort of afro scots accents and its hilarious .
@@sapien82that's the sort of thing I'm talking about, it's similar to Irish Americans
these are becoming more and more cinematic please keep going
God this video has my energy all over it. I'm so happy. I feel like I'm at home in Ireland.
Really well done!
As someone from Massachusetts, I can confirm this is 100% accurate
As an Irishman living in Massachusetts, 50 per cent of my day consists of Americans telling me the entire history of their family tree. For the love of god I dont give a fuck that your Granddad was from Galway please let me drink in peace.
@@tomconnolly9895Ask them what part of Galway. Most haven’t a clue. But if they do, tell them it’s known as dump full of prostitutes and inbreeding. Usually stops them asking any more questions.
@@tomconnolly9895 One of the big disconnects is that the Irish seem to be about the hardest people to have a conversation with, at least for an American. So guarded, you can meet an American on a bus and they'll tell you all about their son's struggle with addiction and how it relates to their grandfather's blah blah blah. I get that that's horrifying to an Irish person but that's what we're like. Also, especially in a place like Boston, ethnicity is what we have instead of a well-defined class hierarchy. We pretend we don't have classes here but historically the Irish were the servant class for the wealthy yankees.
@BCThunderthud I don't think Irish people are any more guarded than other Europeans, it's just that Americans tend to overshare very personal information about themselves way too quickly with strangers and that's very strange to Irish people. I can't count the amount of times an American person has told me they were having marital problems, finanical problems, were recovering Alcoholics/drug addicts, or were on meds, within minutes of meeting me for the first time. I think to myself "Why are you telling me this?" It's a very awkward position to be put in. Don't get me wrong I like Americans and get on well with them, but that was a major culture shock for me. I think Americans (and the world in general) thinks Irish people are extremely outgoing and gregarious, when in reality we are mostly introverted.
@@BCThunderthud You’re having the wrong conversation. Personal lives usually stay personal here. Americans tend to have whole a narrative for their life story that they tell to anyone who’ll listen. And hey, if you’re a Vietnam vet who set up a recording studio in the 1980s before eventually buying an island in the Florida Keys and setting up a sanctuary for marine life, keep talking. I’m interested.
But if you’re a dentist with a large, dull family and an interest in hunting turkeys, I don’t care.
He needs to do this skit in Boston lol
Bostonians totally love the Irish especially when you tell them they aren't really Irish 🤣
That's how you get assaulted.
@killswitch6361 either way, it makes for great entertainment lol
Southie
He would die
I love this dudes videos!!
I think there's just a confusion of terms here. Since America is an ethnically diverse nation, ethnic origins have always served as identifying categories. Irish Americans are Irish in the same sense that African Americans are African; it denotes a shared historical connection and thus an ethnic identity. But when Irish Americans go to Ireland, this becomes less relevant and (rightly) doesn't make sense to people who were born and raised in Ireland. I don't call myself Irish when I'm in Ireland but I do when I'm in America.
Thats actually great point that I havent thought of. I get why other Americans might be frustrated by it though. In Ireland we typically dont view nationality as something that can be inherited like race or ethnicity. instead we typically view nationality as something that is acquired over a long period of time by being immersed in the culture and zeitgeist of a company.
Tbh, leave Irish Americans alone. Many of them have Irish DNA which rests their case. I find most Irish people a bit snooty about this issue, especially those who were never "forced" to take the boat.
Jesus, we have totally lost the run of ourselves. Most of my family went to US to make a better life, and succeeded. Thanks America. I hope this hubis of the modern native Irish just goes away. Reality check: we're not that special. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Say hi to Cletus
It's hard not to feel kind of special when people are flying across the ocean to talk about how special you are. It's a weird dynamic that's for sure.
Same here in Scotland Americans don't only think their Scottish but also descendants of Braveheart
Actually, I am related to William Wallace. My uncle lives in Paisley.
*They're.
Every Freedom-loving American is a descendant of Braveheart 🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅
loving the camera upgrade! looks awesome
Always confused me this, my grandad was Irish, I have an obviously Irish surname, a quite famous one, but I was born in England thus I'm English, even though I have very strong roots and bloodline from Ireland I would NEVER call myself Irish.
If you're born in England then your NATIONALITY is English, but your HERITAGE is still Irish! Two different things!
@@Ramberta his heritage is mostly English. I also had a grandfather from Ireland but the only Irish heritage I have is my surname and possibly my pale complexion.
@@lkidds4222 same here, but that doesn't mean the Irish heritage doesn't exist! Just because I don't call myself Irish in most contexts doesn't mean the heritage doesn't exist...
I'm English and met a lot of Americans in Mexico and New York who thought they were Irish. Not a bloody clue. Couldn't believe the delusion.
we literally are Irish. DNA doesn't lie
@@shaunsteele6926DNA means shit all mate.
@@catalinaa766 DNA means everything. Science has identified the Irish race
Ask an actual Irishman in Ireland then. I'd love to see how it goes down.@@shaunsteele6926
@@shaunsteele6926yeah 4% lmao
it's strange that they're so loudly proud to be American yet desperate to identify as anything else 🤣
Edit: I hope you guys don’t think I’m reading your replies…
With none of the effort to look into history and culture lol
@@sumlem they don't have much of a history unless they're indian. My house is older than the US
@@Karl_Marksmanor just history they’re ashamed of, like slavery and being the only Nation to use nuclear weapons in war
@@jamieclifford5491Both the transatlantic slave trade and nuclear weapons were by a certain group from the middle east though that are a tiny minority so you can't blame whites or Asians for that. Obviously you can't blame black who were enslaved either but you can blame the blacks who sold them into slavery in Africa. The vast majority of Americans in the past had nothing to do with the slave trade or nuclear weapons so have nothing to be ashamed of (then or now). Plus almost all races in America have been slaves. Also most countries that all Americans came from have been affected by slavery and some still are today.
@@folksurvival a group in the Middle East is responsible for slavery in America and the use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What is it you’re trying to say?
Anybody else notice these videos are getting increasingly more high quality, love it.
Loving this guy's energy
That's given me a proper giggle. Nice one
When i started watching this, i thought it was going to be a pisstake. How relieved i was to see it was a serious documentary style video. Kudos Sir.
the fact he kept in the parts where he let them speak (he usually always keeps those parts out) says it all really
I love that you just made them stand there and take it 😂
Many an online lecture have I had on the potato famine and the RA like it was my fault.
as an american with a mother who grew up in ireland, i don't associate myself either as an "irish tourist" or as a person returning to the "motherland," it's just a place i go to see my family 👍
whenever i visit, i'm located mostly in downings, in the northwest part of ireland, and it's always nice to see the countryside because it really is more beautiful than what we have in america.
if i ever do want to move, it would probably be to ireland (dual citizenship moment,) even if it rains all the time
Ah yeah, Downings is very nice to be fair. Props.
this video is not about you though, you are not confused you have genuine connections.
I’d love to see a version of this for Americans who think they’re Italian.
try telling a New York mob boss he's not Italian.
@@shaunsteele6926 hey I'm walking here
They will “prove” they are by telling you how their grandmother made them spaghetti with meatballs (not an Italian dish for any Americans reading this) every Sunday! 😂
They have Italian ancestry. They don't literally think they are Italian as in from Italy. They are American and quite fine with that. Unbelievable you guys think when Americans reference their ethnic heritage that you literally think we mean we are from these foreign countries.
@@jmo8525 no one said that. It's a strawman argument. They believe they are CULTURALLY Italian.
The most impressive thing is that you get people to stand there while you insult them 😅
It's not that impressive when you realise they have no idea what the fuck he's saying
That is SO TRUE. V funny video! I don't know how you kept a straight face to camera!
I am an Irish-American and all it got me was this lousy alcoholism.
It's a fascinating perspective that they have when it comes to cultural or national identity. My grandfather is from Ireland but you've never catch me ever saying I was Irish as a result, neither would my mum try to claim she was, we'd say "My grandad/dad is Irish." Going further back I've got ancestors from Russia and Italy, but I couldn't keep a straight face attempting to say "I'm Russian-Italian-Irish". Does any other country in the world do that?
It's because American is not an ethnicity. In Ireland, Irish is a nationality because it is a Nation State deeply dependent on an identity derived from ethnicity.
At the very least it’s the only country where people are this vocal about claiming the wrong national identity. The general consensus in Europe, and I assume most places, is that you have to grow up in the culture and speak the local language to be able to claim it. I don’t understand why Americans are so loud and proud of their country, yet desperately seek to be not American
I also had Irish grandparents, but have never considered myself anything other than 100% English.
My great great grandfather was one of those who fled to America, his son came back to Britain and for some reason decided to hold up in England, then popped some sprogs, and then I eventually arrive, and no doubt to the rotational chagrin of my Irish ancestors, as a proud Englishman. But I'm only proud because it'll annoy others, in reality I couldn't give a fuck, it's not as if anyone chooses the geographical location of their own birth. Like what, is anyone tugging on the umbilical like reigns and guiding their mother to another fucking continent out of a desire not to be French?
Wait, I imagine that desire would certainly be intense enough. The mother probably wouldn't even need the guidance though, who would want to bring another French into existence, ugh...
@@hectorcot597Aussies and Kiwis don't have this obsession. They're in the same boat as Americans, but are more than happy to proclaim themselves nothing but Australians and Kiwis, regardless of their European heritage or otherwise. This truly is an American phenomenon.
I love this guys energy
Just need one of these video's for the Italian Americans out there now
I never get old of these "cultural observations". They are always so spot on in my mind :D
You've improved your production levels and it really works well. Nice touch of narrative.
😂😂😂😂This is great! Thank you for sharing hilarious truth!😂😂😂
Absolute class 👏
Some Canadian guy in Ontario broke out his Scots accent on me, after I said I was from Liverpool. Happened twice actually. 😀
Liverpool right in the heart of Midlothian... 🤣
@@aikighost :O ya mean Glencoe
Billy Connolly says, there are more people in Canada claiming to be Scottish than there are people in Scotland.
Now do, Irish who think they're American...the lads actually say "Math" 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
We have a special name for Irish people who think they’re American: “mentally ill”.
Another good video mate😅👍🏻👊🏻💯 i subscribed yea... cheers
this is amazing
It really just comes down to cultural misunderstanding + naivete. When Americans tell each other things like "I"m Irish," or "I'm Irish and Italian," we know what we mean; we're talking ancestry, not nationality. It's the whole "melting pot" thing. A while back, different immigrant groups had their own communities and everything... it's become somewhat ingrained in us. Problem is that this doesn't make sense to someone from another country, whose place of origin, for the most part, IS their ancestry. And Americans are so used to the way we understand it, that we don't consider this when we do actually travel somewhere. So, cultural misunderstanding. It does indeed get annoying though, when some of these Irish-Americans have zero idea of what Ireland is actually like, or that the Irish-American thing they like isn't an Irish thing, etc. At that point, it's on them.
no theres no such thing as irish american just becasue your great grand father came from ireland, YOU ARE ALL AMERICAN
@@Xiiiiky2H it is actually kind of a gross sentiment for those who are descendent of the survivors that were able to stay to deny outright the ethnicity of those who were forced to leave. the great hunger wasn't that far in the past. Its one thing to poke fun at some of the ignorant American tourist who try to appropriate a culture so they can center themselves while on vacation but its another thing entirely to finish the job the British started all those years ago by acting as if because our ancestors were expelled from the land that their kin will one day be told that their generational trauma has no right to exist, that all the songs and stories, and hopes of our ancestors for us to return aren't valid and should i dare say be cleansed from our heart.
@@jeffreygarty8214It’s really mainly just funny to wind up Americans claiming to be Irish - just for the Craic like.
But sure, sure you absolutely hold these things dearly.
What is a bit offensive though is that Irish-American culture is it’s own thing, and split off from Irish culture 200 odd years ago.
I grew up in N.Ireland during the troubles, I don’t mind the Irish-American thing at all, but people claiming to be Irish and thinking generational trauma is anything like the actual trauma we went through is a bit offensive like.
When in reality, most of you are either german or british, statistically.
@@Xiiiiky2Hthat's really stupid because as much as you want to see it as black and white and "you're no longer irish" a lot of people still have brought their cultural traditions over and kept them going. To say "you're just american" without considering that its more complicated then that, you just come off as bullheaded as americans do.
The 4:3 aspect ratio is sufficiently unusual, in these modern days of widescreen [mostly 16:9] YouYube videos, to be considered a weird aspect ratio. I approve.
Namaste. 🙏
If a man can identify as a woman then an American can identify as Irish.
I hate that youre technically right
Thank you for your survice
I haven’t watched your channel in a bit cause life happens but duuuude I love this video and congrats on your channel growth!
Hi from the Highlands of Scotland. We have American tourists coming here that think they are "Scattish".😂
Telling you they are from a Clan that doesn't exist or adamant that they are highlanders when you know for a fact their surname is Lowland Scot or Borderer, right?
My grandma was from caithness, and I visit my cousins there now and again. I wear my proper highland dress kit for weddings, and I can understand Scots patter a reasonable percent of the time. But I'm not Scottish, really, I'm Scottish-American (among other backgrounds).
kind of like Gordon Ramsay claiming to be Scottish while sporting a posh English accent
@@RossBradley-vd5rc not so fast, my friend is a Campbell and he was literally denied a drink because of his last name despite being American with an obvious Brooklyn accent. Everyone on here is throwing around generalizations
Sounds like you hate your diaspora but okay
So good!
I LOVE THIS!!!
My mom was from Germany, but I was born in Dublin. Although I have a German passport and speak conversational German, I’m Irish. My cousins on my Irish dad’s side were born in Philadelphia, USA. Their own kids were also born in the US.
When they visit us here in Ireland they find it odd that people considered them to be American only.
To me they are “the American cousins”. They were born there, went to school there, follow American sports, have US passports, vote in U.S. elections, and speak with US accents. They lived the American experience. Living in Ireland would be difficult to navigate for them because it’s not what they know.
However, I also can’t deny them having an Irish family history and having Irish cultural traditions passed down. So I understand their thought process in a country where most people have recent origins elsewhere.
So, to me, the terms Irish-American and American of Irish descent make sense. But I see “Irish” as a legal nationality and a shared life experience.
Your "national identity" is really defined by where you grew up.
I have Irish citizenship, but I grew up and still live in Britian. I think it would be rude of me to claim to be Irish - like I am trying to claim to be part of a nationality/culture that I have never participated in.
Americans acknowledging their ancestry is fine, but claiming to actually be of that culture is the most extreme form of actual "cultural appropriation" possible.
Egggzacly. They are "of Irish descent." 👍✨
It’s because Americans are raised to believe they belong everywhere. We’re all honorary European owners of a plantation in the Philippines.
@@Aethid Tell your theory to a Nigerian who grew up in Japan
@@jennyhaytchIf indeed they are.
What if Ireland is just a mispronunciation of island.
Iceland could make more sense hhh
English people say that. They go "Island"...
it's not though
@@Lala-kc2fwnot all, but sure.
"completely unperturbed by the parameters of reality" . that's fucking poetry friend
This is painfully accurate.
I'm English with Irish heritage on my Dad's side, (his grandad floated over).
Went to Dublin once.
It was actually awful.
It is awful. It's basically England lite. Liverpool is more Irish than Dublin.