Owdhamer:
The large number of American with roots in Ireland might just have something to do with the fact that we Brits starved the Irish out of their own land.
It was meant to be a light hearted comment. I am fully aware that we English have little to proud of both in Brittain and the rest of the world it colonised.
Rubbish, we have plenty to be proud of. Yes there were incidents that are clung onto and highlighted by those with a certian agenda but it was not all bad by far.
Americans sympathise with the Irish because they have been abused and driven out by the 'nasty British'.
Would that be the same Americans who have an enormous, spacious and highly resourced country due to its previous occupants being driven out, robbed and murdered?
The Birth of a Nation? - genocide and ethnic cleansing.
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