Ciao, sono irlandese

Usually the yanks who come over are trying to escape from the ones in the first picture

My favourite Irish Americans are Choctaw 

I don’t hate Americans looking for their heritage and I never met anyone with 2 brain cells that did either .

I’ve always wondered why Ireland has such contempt for the diaspora compared to other countries

Yeah because it’s totally the same people saying these things… and I don’t think many sound minded people hate Americans who are enthusiastic about finding some ancestry or whatever, maybe a little annoying to some in how it’s portrayed by some but if this is where you choose to direct your hate then it sounds like a you problem..

Some of the nicest salt of the earth people I know are American. It’s a big country and believe it or not there are many different people of different cultural backgrounds with many different opinions and views on life and the world.

What’s embarrassing here is you went to the effort of making this into a “meme”

I liked pretty much all the Irish-Americans I’ve met and I disliked pretty much all the pathetic losers who are obsessed with America so much that leads them to this weird resentment and hatred of Irish-Americans.
This is one of the worst aspects of /r/Ireland and terminally online Irish people.

I enjoy lurking on here, I still have family in Ireland. But far too many people I am in direct contact with have no appreciation for the history of their so-called heritage.

I’ve heard people say how much they love Guinness, then almost immediately talk about how Margaret Thatcher is a good person. I’m currently living through a wholesale cristofascist takeover, with the opposition all but rooting for it.

 Ireland legalised gay marriage, and there are still St. Patrick’s day parades that won’t fly a rainbow flag, citing “heritage.” So while we may have some common denominators, the people who wear it on their sleeve deserve every bit of hate you care to give.

Edit: the Theresa May dance lives rent free in my head 😅 

A lot of Americans seem to struggle with the difference between nationality and ancestry. Where your great grandparents were from is your heritage, not your nationality.
You’re not Irish, you’re American.

I don’t hate Irish Americans.i live in a touristy town and some are lovely and you’d go out of your way to help then, some are arseholes. So that’s least one thing we share.
I just hate when they describe themselves as Irish while spreading hate. . The Nigerian family down the road who became naturalised citizens last year, who both work in health care and turn up to support every community event are a million times more Irish than you. Stop calling yourself Irish, you don’t speak for us

I dunno.

I’ve no issue with an American coming here to explore family routes. It sounds like a fun trip.
If I was a yank I’d probably have an interest in whatever culture my family came from.

And most Americans I’ve met traveling here or Europe are fairly liberal minded.

Irish American politicans are Obama… Ted Kennedy… are “we” not a left wing demographic there.

This picture distorts reality.

Jfc why are Irish people so obsessed with appearing better than others?

Whether its whining about Americans or the Brits we’re like an embittered ex who needs to loudly display how much they dont think about you anymore.

Until obama came here and two villages argued where he was from

Yawn

I’ve always been amazed at how weird people in Ireland are about Irish Americans. In your haste to clamp down on ethno nationalism your excluding the the diaspora which is incredibly valuable for our country. The snark is just immature. And it’s hard to take seriously considering the amount of times people told me I’m not Irish while I was living in Dublin, simply because I’m from Derry. Let them calm themselves Irish. Half of you can’t even speak Gaeilge to any decent extent we don’t really have any right to be protective of this status of irishness

Oh this is perfect! I’m holding onto this meme to use later on my racist-ass family. Thanks!

I love the Ireland-Mexico border area

As an American who appreciates the discourse, I thought I’d share it couple of quick thoughts.

1) I read all of the comments here and it seems U.S. Americans are painted with a very very broad brush. I am not sure such generalizations are sound. The population of Ireland is about 7.2 million. NYC alone is 8.5 million and there are thousands of cultures, races, religions, political leanings, sexual orientations, wealth (or lack there of). 1 US City in a country 340 million people. Would it be fair to paint ya’ll with a “they’re just European” brush

2) Yep, U.S. Americans can really put a ton of emphasis or concern on their heritage. Why? Because U.S. America – although almost 250 years old – is a young country with a constantly churning melting pot of cultures and heritages. We are such a large, diverse country that there isn’t a shared US American heritage. Funny thing is some of us have more in common with our cousins of the same heritage, than we do with many other U.S. groups.

3) It is shameful there is bigotry in the world. It is more shameful that those U.S. Americans that claim Irish heritage are bigoted – their ancestors that came here from Ireland were racially bigoted against even into the 20th century. 19th century Media portrayed the Irish with simian or ape like features. That’s not generations and generations ago for some of us, for some of us, that was our grandparents.

One final thing, since the OP made a valid point with the Mexican Flag… Those of of us I’m the USA are U.S. Americans. Many of not most American countries, particularly Venezuela, consider themselves Americans as the live in an American continent.

this is dependent on where you go. America is massive.

Weird thing hating the descendants of our kin who were literally forced out of the country. But then we are a complicated people

Glad to see that there’s other Irish people here scoffing at this tiresome, cynical “plastic paddy” bashing to our own diaspora.

The other Irish subs think the exact same about you insufferable melts

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualIreland/s/iI6tGMii1H

Hi Irish, I’m Dad

I don’t mind Irish Americans being proud of they’re heritage, I just hate the stereotypes like we like to fight after a few drinks or can’t control anger.

I know it’s not all of them but that part annoys me. I’m glad they feel proud of their heritage and nobody can deny them that

I find their societal obsession with bloodlines quite uncomfortable to be honest, it’s like they don’t understand the value of community and culture and attach their entire identity to race and heritage.

Also learning more about the Israeli influence in the US and the culture around those indoctrinating “brightright” trips around the concept of visiting a “homeland” which are promoted as being important to establishing self-identity it’s hard to not see the similarities of how this might apply to other identities and the motivation behind it.

Irish emigrant: “I’m going to pass along my culture to my kids and we’re going to visit my family every year” Maybe 75% gets passed down. 

First US born (me): “I grew up visiting my family in Ireland every year (in my case lived there for a few years), am an Irish citizen, grew up playing GAA, woke up at the crack of dawn to watch FAI matches & Six nations, grew up in an Irish ethnic enclave around immigrants calling me ‘Irish’, went to Irish culture camps. I’m going to pass this culture to my kids” maybe 50% gets passed down

Second US born: “I grew up going on a few trips to Ireland to see second cousins. I Irish danced. We went to every Irish culture fest & paddy’s day parade around, grew up playing soccer or rugby. My Nan would tell me stories about her childhood and my mom/dad tell me stories about visiting their cousins. I’m an Irish citizen, I’m going to pass along this culture” maybe 25% gets passed down. 

Third US born: “I’ve been to my family’s hometown but we don’t have any real connections. Though we try to embrace the Americanized Irish culture that my parents handed down to us.” Maybe 25% gets handed down. 

This continues all the way down for each new generation eventually you have a watered down grasp of what “Irish” means but your parents told you you are so you default to saying it but the watering down and Americanization happens over generations it’s not like someone leaves, loses every ounce of their culture and gives birth to a MAGA, gun toting, football loving, crappy beer drinking American. Each generation is saying that because the prior generation told them they were passing down the heritage of their parents and continuing a legacy losing track of how much is authentically passed down. They aren’t keeping up with how the culture has changed in Ireland, they aren’t noticing the bits that get watered down. For reference look at some of the second or third generation people of Indian or African ethnicities in Ireland. They’re Irish sure but they’re also retaining parts of their ethnic culture as well, when I was doing my masters at NUIG I went to a Holi party where almost everyone was Indian ethnicity but born in Ireland so I know it happens.