You are reading a single comment by @tb and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
There's an episode of Somebody Feed Phil where he goes around Ireland with his American 'Irish' wife, and everyone gives them a polite smile and nod every time he exclaims "My wife is Irish too!!!!!". They do an ancestry test and it's something like four or five generations back.
tb-
Back in the 90s, one of the New York papers did a survey comparing attitudes of people from long-standing Irish American families to new Irish immigrants.
Favourite film for Irish Americans? The Quiet Man.
Most hated film amongst Irish immigrants? The Quiet Man.
Not surprising, given that the (fairly awful) film is dripping with condescending, sentimental Oirishry. And John Wayne.
itsbruce
Every white person in the USA is decended from immigrants, it's nothing special, I don't get why they're always so hung up on being Irish or Italian or whatever. It's like me claiming I'm Norwegian because it was them that settled in Normandy then later invaded and settled England.