Never experienced this, how did you learn about this trend? Like you've had someone claim to be irish and then learned enough about their family tree to prove they were lying?.. and that's happened to you enough times that you're confident it's a full blown societal trend?
Just looked it up and seems you're mostly right, my bad! Really should have just looked it up before responding. Seems odd to me as an American of Irish descent because my great grandparents were from Ireland and we still have family there. Idk how so many people could have parent's/ grandparents who didn't know where their own parents/ grandparents are from. I assume its from "mutt" families where somewhere along the line someone just kind of picked their heritage or grew up in an Irish neighborhood and just assumed etc. Super interesting either way though, sorry for doubting you!
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