Originally posted by: ness1469
I don't care what you say. I'm one quarter Irish. If you're to dumb to realize that I'm saying 1/4 of my ancestors are from Ireland, and you somehow think I mean that one quarter of me was shipped from Ireland and assembled in America, then tough crap for you.
It's not like a run around saying that I have magical Irish powers because I'm 1/4 Irish. It's not like I would side with the Irish if they were at war or something. I don't expect people to bow down to me and celebrate my presence on St. Patrick's Day. They can if they want, but that's just silly. There's NO reason to. I do have an Irish flag hanging in my room, but that's because a friend in Ireland sent it to me.
What's I'm saying is that there is no problem.. basically... telling people where my grand parents are from. Hell, if they really wanna know then more power to them. I know that having ancestrial roots from a certain country connects me in that way, and that way alone, and that it doesn't necessarily mean anything.
However, learning about your root and taking an intrest in their place of origin is totally acceptable. Nothing wrong with throwing back an extra green beer for all my dead ancestors from Ireland on SPD. My father and I did a lot of geneology research just for some fun one year. If you tell anyone working in a records archive that you are American, then you get laughed at.
America is the melting pot of the world, and everyone has some history outside of America. Might as well learn about it if you have nothing better to do.
