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12 Oct 2011, 4:30 pm

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I have been called a Terrorist in high school for being Irish because of the whole IRA thing plus I get annoyed dealing with stupid Irish stereotypes.


Everyone has stupid stereotypes to deal with.

Meh, I guess such nationalism will always be a mystery to me.


Yeah their's that and that some Americans of British descent do not care to much for the Irish I have already stated I made this post out of anger I do not think logically when I am angry.



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13 Oct 2011, 7:22 am

Joker - Starting in 2005, Ireland began tightening its citizenship requirements. Nowadays, even being born there doesn't automatically mean you're a citizen.
This came about because growing numbers of heavily-pregnant Africans were travelling to Ireland to give birth and collect Irish welfare.
Unless at least one of your parents is an Irish citizen who was born in Ireland, don't assume you'll be eligible.



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13 Oct 2011, 8:16 am

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I have been called a Terrorist in high school for being Irish because of the whole IRA thing plus I get annoyed dealing with stupid Irish stereotypes.


This happened to a lot of Irish people living in England during the PIRA terrorist campaign. You can kind of understand it when people's town centres and pubs are being blown up by Irish people living in England. Conversely, a lot of Irish people left or were forced out of Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Irish terrorism isn't as relevant as it was. And you're not Irish, Joker, you're American.



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13 Oct 2011, 1:51 pm

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Joker wrote:
I have been called a Terrorist in high school for being Irish because of the whole IRA thing plus I get annoyed dealing with stupid Irish stereotypes.


This happened to a lot of Irish people living in England during the PIRA terrorist campaign. You can kind of understand it when people's town centres and pubs are being blown up by Irish people living in England. Conversely, a lot of Irish people left or were forced out of Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Irish terrorism isn't as relevant as it was. And you're not Irish, Joker, you're American.


I do agree with that they have stopped but my granpartens and a great granparents, where Irish and me mother Irish, threw ourbloodline that makes me Irish, just like me brother Joshua, he is also Irish, I am also of German, an Cherokee, descent Lad.

Just because I was born in America that doesn't mean that I am not Irish their are a lot of Irish people living in America.



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13 Oct 2011, 2:06 pm

Joker wrote:
Tequila wrote:
Joker wrote:
I have been called a Terrorist in high school for being Irish because of the whole IRA thing plus I get annoyed dealing with stupid Irish stereotypes.


This happened to a lot of Irish people living in England during the PIRA terrorist campaign. You can kind of understand it when people's town centres and pubs are being blown up by Irish people living in England. Conversely, a lot of Irish people left or were forced out of Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Irish terrorism isn't as relevant as it was. And you're not Irish, Joker, you're American.


I do agree with that they have stopped but my granpartens and a great granparents, where Irish and me mother Irish, threw ourbloodline that makes me Irish, just like me brother Joshua, he is also Irish, I am also of German, an Cherokee, descent Lad.

Just because I was born in America that doesn't mean that I am not Irish their are a lot of Irish people living in America.


I'm mostly German on both sides of my family, though there is a tad bit of Swedish and Polish on my Dad's side, and judging from my maternal Grandmother's maiden name, apparently some German Jewish on my Mom's side. If you ask me to identify my ethnicity, I'll answer first and foremost German Lutheran. I was raised with a strong German identity and appreciation that German history doesn't begin and end with Hitler. But regardless, before all else, I identify myself an an American, as have members of my family who had fought in two world wars against Germany.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



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13 Oct 2011, 2:18 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Joker wrote:
Tequila wrote:
Joker wrote:
I have been called a Terrorist in high school for being Irish because of the whole IRA thing plus I get annoyed dealing with stupid Irish stereotypes.


This happened to a lot of Irish people living in England during the PIRA terrorist campaign. You can kind of understand it when people's town centres and pubs are being blown up by Irish people living in England. Conversely, a lot of Irish people left or were forced out of Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Irish terrorism isn't as relevant as it was. And you're not Irish, Joker, you're American.


I do agree with that they have stopped but my granpartens and a great granparents, where Irish and me mother Irish, threw ourbloodline that makes me Irish, just like me brother Joshua, he is also Irish, I am also of German, an Cherokee, descent Lad.

Just because I was born in America that doesn't mean that I am not Irish their are a lot of Irish people living in America.


I'm mostly German on both sides of my family, though there is a tad bit of Swedish and Polish on my Dad's side, and judging from my maternal Grandmother's maiden name, apparently some German Jewish on my Mom's side. If you ask me to identify my ethnicity, I'll answer first and foremost German Lutheran. I was raised with a strong German identity and appreciation that German history doesn't begin and end with Hitler. But regardless, before all else, I identify myself an an American, as have members of my family who had fought in two world wars against Germany.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


I was rasied kinda the same but with a strong German Irish identity and a methodist religion but I am America I just do not call myself that it's just my nationality but not my race.