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Originally Posted by Rory
Maybe you don't understand the meaning of the quote, when America suffers the world does as well. And yes I do know the history of my country, but to be honest, the Irish took just as much part in building America than any other country. I'm not saying that Ireland did nothing, I'm just saying it doesn't deserve recognition over other countries for "building a large part of the east coast". If we're talking in that sense, the English did.
America is a melting pot, but what's funny is that you're basically bashing a culture that your people created. And glad you picked up on the ignorance of my comment, but you were magnifying the "Gawd Bless America" perspective to represent the entire country. I hardly call what you've been saying "acknowledging and respecting its great achievements and dominant culture", but either: a) I'm getting the anti-Americans mixed up in this thread or b) it's "humor" that my silly American mind doesn't understand.
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Bless, he is trying to communicate.
I say :
''I think most people in this thread are thinking of the typical ''gawd bless America'' American of conservative suburbia. And there politics are rotten to the very core man.''
You say :
''You were magnifying the "Gawd Bless America" perspective to represent the entire country.''
Compare and contrast. I was clearly never blanketing the whole of America. It's your problem that you think I was. And it's your problem that you fought this with reverse ignorance. And it's your problem if you think today's American culture is something the Irish created.
A total of 36,495,800 Americans (more than 12% of total population) reported Irish ancestry in the 2006 American Community Survey.
Bono and the potato famine. Christ, I really do get the American style of humor now.