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Originally Posted by Tribesman
Really?
Yet in Boston on paddys day how many narrowbacks could you find claiming to be Irish-American because of some great great great grandmother they think came from County Dingle.
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This very post proves it true. Some people who have zero cultural affinity with Irish culture (ie: actual culture practiced in Ireland) claim to be more closely related because of some nonsensical drop of blood someplace. My grandmother had a very irish maiden name, and her mother was in fact born there. That said, I'd never suggest that I'd have more in common with someone because of a surname someplace in the family history, that's absurd.
I have more in common culturally with virtually any 3d generation+ american selected at random than I do with someone picked at random from a country represented by some surname in my family heritage. Obviously if you are naturalized, or your parents were, you might have more customs still from wherever "the old country" might have been.
It's funny that sometimes nationality gets taken as "race." Even more silly when one considers that "race" is pretty much meaningless anyway.