i literally was born in USSR, but grew up in USA and i don't pull that shit. I need to somehow get my nephew to knock it off cuz he's learning these types of bad habits from his dad (who is obsessed with being 'irish' even though he is canadian). like at least my nephew was born in Scotland, but like my story, neither of us were old enough to remember, nor do we have any sort of our 'native' culture in our lives.
hell, at least i learned russian and became a communist...
a couple halloweens ago, i had to throw together a costume because the guy i was hooking up with wanted to got to a party. i just wore a ushanka and a tracksuit and slav'd it up. can one appropriate their own culture? who knows but i was comfortable as fuck.
Why do these very same people like to pretend that they're more oppressed than black people at like every chance they can get to remind people? Seriously. Irish and Italian american chuds absolutely love to go on about how ummm actually we face greater hate crimes than the urban hip hop thugs do.
I have a certain amount of sympathy for trying to hold on to hold on to some sense of roots (English was my grandma's second language, but my mom only speaks English, and I have some friends whose families emigrated more recently and they're navigating that same language divide right now), but at the same time, there's no denying that all too often Irish/German/Italian/etc pride is just barely disguised white pride.
Because for people in Biden's generation it was an actual racial disparity separate from "white", and now it no longer is. (Okay, probably earlier than even him, but y'know.) It's why he made the comment about "sorry to the Greeks but my mom makes the best rice pudding" and when the BBC tried to interview him he said "BBC? I'm Irish"
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Casual belief in race science
cosplay is fun.
i literally was born in USSR, but grew up in USA and i don't pull that shit. I need to somehow get my nephew to knock it off cuz he's learning these types of bad habits from his dad (who is obsessed with being 'irish' even though he is canadian). like at least my nephew was born in Scotland, but like my story, neither of us were old enough to remember, nor do we have any sort of our 'native' culture in our lives.
hell, at least i learned russian and became a communist...
Being "Irish" in america just means you're white and have a drinking problem.
If I could claim this it doesn't matter how white I am I would wear a ushanka 24/7 and speak only russian.
a couple halloweens ago, i had to throw together a costume because the guy i was hooking up with wanted to got to a party. i just wore a ushanka and a tracksuit and slav'd it up. can one appropriate their own culture? who knows but i was comfortable as fuck.
We have no culture besides appropriating culture
Why do these very same people like to pretend that they're more oppressed than black people at like every chance they can get to remind people? Seriously. Irish and Italian american chuds absolutely love to go on about how ummm actually we face greater hate crimes than the urban hip hop thugs do.
You just don’t understand. Christopher Columbus is Jesus to them and having indigenous peoples day is a micro aggression. Columbus statues matter
sense of meaning and origin in a society of atomized individuals I'm guessing
I have a certain amount of sympathy for trying to hold on to hold on to some sense of roots (English was my grandma's second language, but my mom only speaks English, and I have some friends whose families emigrated more recently and they're navigating that same language divide right now), but at the same time, there's no denying that all too often Irish/German/Italian/etc pride is just barely disguised white pride.
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Because for people in Biden's generation it was an actual racial disparity separate from "white", and now it no longer is. (Okay, probably earlier than even him, but y'know.) It's why he made the comment about "sorry to the Greeks but my mom makes the best rice pudding" and when the BBC tried to interview him he said "BBC? I'm Irish"
once a guido wop, always a guido wop
Normal people say it because everyone knows what you really mean when you say you're Irish or whatever
I've heard poc argue that the first step to abolishing whiteness is white people re discovering their ethnic roots, so...