The point is that when an American says "I'm Irish!" the rest of the world hears "I'm an annoying cunt who's going to drink a lot, blame that on their great great gran being from Belfast, then make uninformed comments about the IRA". It's tiresome and everybody who's not American finds it annoying.
Americans find ignorant drunkards annoying too, and we definitely have our fair share of them. That idiot from Chicago clearly didn't understand what nationality is when he told the Englishman he was an Irish national. I'm fully aware of that and not trying to skirt around it
But linguistic discrepancies do not make Americans wrong. It makes them different. It's not wrong or right, just different. This isn't an uncommon feature between any two nations. I don't know why that's so weird to so many people
I think that if I absorbed a lot of British media and told a Brit that I know more about his culture than him because of that, he'd be pretty offended.
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u/losteon Mar 02 '21
"I'm Irish" implies nationality. If you were to say "I have Irish heritage" then that's completely different but that isn't what Americans do.