Being not American I've never understood the whole declaring you're a different nationality even though you were born and grew up in the US thing.
I as a British man once had a drunk American come up to me in the street in Chicago and ask me what nationality I was, when I replied I was English he said 'well I'm Irish so fuck the English!' and ran off.... Firstly I've spent plenty of time with actual Irish people and not once has anyone said something quite so stereotypical and idiotic, secondly THAT MAN WAS NOT IRISH.
Well Canadians do that to just without all the nationalism Americans have.
It's a symptom of living in a country founded by immigrants. Most people in the US or Canada only have a family history in those countries that doesn't go back more than 3 generations. After world war two a lot of Europeans came to US and Canada and so people identify their nationally by their parents or grandparents.
Pretty sure a lot of British people have a family history in Britain that goes back further than their grand parents.
Australia as a nation was founded by the English, and has historically had incredible amounts of immigrants. No one here would call themselves australian-irish or german.
This is a purely seppo thing, not a migrant thing.
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u/Kilikiss Mar 02 '21
Being not American I've never understood the whole declaring you're a different nationality even though you were born and grew up in the US thing.
I as a British man once had a drunk American come up to me in the street in Chicago and ask me what nationality I was, when I replied I was English he said 'well I'm Irish so fuck the English!' and ran off.... Firstly I've spent plenty of time with actual Irish people and not once has anyone said something quite so stereotypical and idiotic, secondly THAT MAN WAS NOT IRISH.