"Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀

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• y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Idk lol some of our ancestors are just from a place and sometimes that place is Ireland. Want my white-ass to lie to you instead?

  I’m Hatian now.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It’s just a very foreign thing for us eurooeans. If we’re born in Italy, but some grandparent was born in Germany, we don’t consider ourself to be german in any way. We’d consider ourself italian and nothing else. It just seems so incredibly odd to even consider oneself to be german if you didn’t spend time growing up in Germany.

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    • ViperActual@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I think the reason it’s so prevalent here in the US is because the vast majority of the population ended up here at least in part due to immigration. So identifying as ethnically originating from elsewhere is a part of that self identity.

      The disparity however, is knowing that while traveling through Europe, this style of self identification falls flat because simply being ethnically from a place doesn’t mean you can claim to be born and raised from there. And that meaning is what’s different between the US and Europe.

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    • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I guess that makes sense. We have our “heritage” pushed on us from a very young age, or at least we did when I was a child. In the 4th grade we did an entire reenactment of immigrating through Ellis Island, NY in which we had to research our countries of origin, then draw from a hat to see if we died on the journey, got small pox, or any other number of things all before being “accepted into the wonderful cultural melting-pot that is the United States”.

      Then we grew up and learned that all immigrants are evil and must all be deported. /s?

      Regardless, my family immigrated from Ireland after having lived in County Cork for a very long time. This whole post just seems like shitting on people just to shit on people.

      Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be

      Well, thanks for calling me sad for a thing I’m mostly indifferent about and have no choice in, OP.

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s economically stable white people trying to find a way to be the victim.
  You don’t see actually marginalized white people (poor, disabled, etc) doing this, just suburban Karens and shit

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• Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s the same nonsense as invoking “the luck of the Irish”. Said by people who have absolutely no idea about Irish history.

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Darn those extra lucky Irish.

    In Fact it’s well known that they fought overwhelming on the north side of the US civil war because they knew which side was gonna win from their luck, and it had nothing to do with recognizing slavery as another form of the serfdom they just escaped from.

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• sness@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  My great grandparents came to the US and claimed to be Irish. We strongly suspect this was a lie and they were German but arrived during a time where Germans were… unpopular.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve got Irish heritage. My dentist asked me about it because I have a red beard (brown hair). She explained that people with red hair are less responsive to Novocain. I always knew I wasn’t bullshitting that the dentist hurt me as a teen. Finally, proof!

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  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not only Novocain, but lots of different types of anesthesia. Im a ginger and have woken up in several procedures, even after warning the doctor I probably would.

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sounds like hell.

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    • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The band Eels in their song Novocaine for the Soul claims that efficacy of that drug is linked to having a soul and as we all know ginger do not have one.

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• tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Citizenship question: my grandfather’s parents were born in Ireland. My grandfather, who didn’t know he had been adopted until much later in life (by a Jewish woman), became an Irish citizen in his 50s and had dual citizenship until his death.

  As a desperate American… can I get Irish citizenship through my grandfather, a naturalized Irish citizen who was not born in Ireland?? I can (understandably) not find an answer to this on the Irish citizenship website.

  Sincerely, an American who spent 12 hours protesting at a No Kings rally yesterday

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think so, it has to be more direct IIRC. I’ve been looking into it too, for the same reasons. My Great Grandmother emigrated here… nope.

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  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One of your grandparents had to be born in Ireland, not just obtained Irish citizenship later in life. If he was born in Ireland, you’ll need his original birth certificate. More info here.

    That said, I have a few formerly US coworkers who did get Irish citizenship by naturalization. That requires life in Ireland for at least 5 out of the last 9 years. Studying doesn’t count, so you’ll either have your current employer transfer you here, or you’ll find a job and move here. Your employer will apply for a 2-year work visa, which can be extended for another 3 years, after which you can apply for permanent residency. If you are employed in one of the critical skills jobs, you can apply for permanent residency in less than 2 years.

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• DrSoap@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have a friend who came over from Moscow and is an immigrant to the U.S. herself. A few years ago she started telling me she has Irish heritage and she knows it because she felt it in her bones and can see it in her dreams. Now she goes twice a year to ‘reconnect with her roots.’ She was so confident that she did a 23andme and it showed that she was 99% of her heritage with a 1% broadly european. That 1% is what she is now claiming is her Irish portion.

  I don’t know. I really don’t even know.

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  • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mine said I was 0.2% Mongolian so now I endearingly tell stories of my Grandpa Khan.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You need to be listening to The Hu now all day every day to reconnect with your roots. And also just because they are awesone

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    if 1% irish heritage makes you irish then i should be able to claim citizenship in most of europe

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fucking no one tell this person about the EU and free movement.

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think some people just like to be in touch with their ancestry which isn’t suddenly cringe when you’re white. But I think for some other people it’s genuinely part of their victim complex. Irish people were among the most oppressed white minorities back in the day.

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Irish people were among the most oppressed white minorities back in the day.

    Most of the Irish Americans I know are just keen on dishing it back out to whatever Other they can target. I’m also related to most of the Irish Americans I know, so take that as you will.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  like… were a nation of immigrants. it’s part of your identity in the US.

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  • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not according to ICE.

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• psychadlligoat@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use it to explain my massive capacity for alcohol

  "I'm scotch/Irish on one side and German on the other, 3 generations both sides and they bred in the community until my parents!" as I'm on my third boot and finally starting to slur my speech lol

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  • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I usually joke “The Polish in me knows how to drink, the Irish in me doesn’t know how to stop.”

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  • cb900f_bodhi@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Beat me to it. Take my upvote!

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• Sergio@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Guatemala is awesome. The countryside is beautiful and the people are descended from one of humanity’s major civilizations, the Mayans.

  I realize OP is only half-serious, but they still come off as really ignorant.

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  • Omnipitaph@reddthat.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As someone who is doing a massive research project on the Maya peoples right now, that civilization was technologically way ahead of the game! They had toilets with a sewage system, clean aqueducts and water purification measures, and ball sports a thousand years before the Spanish that fucked em up. A THOUSAND YEARS.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not to mention the 200 000 people cities when in Europe a 50k city was considered big

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• supernicepojo@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We as Americans lack a certain amount of culture, we look to our pasts and see what it is our families have come from. So many Irish came here, for so many reasons, the cultural heritage barely came with it, leaving a big gaping hole in what we tend to identify ourselves with.

  I like to use the analogy of the Native American Indian who was displaced and massacred, captured and forced to go to Indoctrination camps as children. Where they applied the “kill the indian, save the child” methodology, abhorrent to think of, its not far off from cultural genocide.

  So, we look back and find our parents and grandparents nationalities, where they have come from, we adopt what little we know of what it means to be Irish. All thats left here is Irish bars and St Patricks Day, Boston and Chicago. Americans will happily tell you about their heritage but its not a long story to tell. We are the children of immigrants striving to find a way to make a home and anyone else to connect with for community.

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I agree with 99% of you comment but

    We as Americans lack a certain amount of culture

    Is just plain false.

    American TV, film, music, fashion, food, technology food and to a lesser extent sports are so influential on the world stage they aren’t even thought of as American half the time.

    Like it or not, half the world’s wearing blue jeans drinking coca cola watching Hollywood movies or posting about it on shitter while rock or rap plays in the background.

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    • supernicepojo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought that would be the point I would get called out on. I tried to phrase it around what capitalism makes, its such a short sighted cultural influence that bears very little of what we internalize. I see our American influence everywhere, but we still lack something more concrete to anchor our individual identities.

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• atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been asking this same goddamn question dude. I don’t get it

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Irish was the last white European immigrant community that was treated poorly after immigration so by claiming to be part of that they get to claim to be part of that oppression and use it to pretend to themselves they are an underdog regardless how much their existence would be unlike any actual Irish immigrants.

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    • cicyphus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That is gross

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• Mist101@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Uh, 'scuse me, I am proud to be Irish ~and Scottish, both from about 400 years back~! I take pride in my heritage by regularly listening to Celtic music.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    come out ye black and tans, 24/7/365

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    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good news, you can start listening to Kneecap now!

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Getting drunk on St. Patty’s

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  • Numenor@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    St. Paddy’s, sir.

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• SpaceFox@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nice to see someone liked it.

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