Posted on 11/25/2014 10:05:42 AM PST by Usagi_yo
The British think Boston is full of “fake Irish people,” according to British staff of Buzzfeed. The website asked its employees in the UK for their stereotypes of every state in the U.S. and created a map of the results.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
Here’s my stereotype of Great Britain: Really bad teeth, drunks, welfare queens, and Muslims.
Here is the map for Ireland and England
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/the-definitive-stereotype-map-of-britain-and-ireland
Maybe they meant bluegrass music.
The Chicago area is usually identified with Al Capone, but I see now Obama has taken his place.
LOL!
Dunno bout that. But last time I was in Boston I was truly impressed at what an absolute dump it is. But that’s just me.
Dunno bout that. But last time I was in Boston I was truly impressed at what an absolute dump it is. But that’s just me.
“not Irish but was enslaved by them. Except he didn’t want reparations or riots...”
As for this country (US) I’d rather have them rioting and begging than evangelizing voodoo...enough of that going already.
Somebody needs a geography lesson: “Basically Canadian” appeared above the Northern Peninsula of Michigan, not Maine.
Looks like a screen shot from Jeremy Clarkson’s GPS
PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL POPULATION:
47.5 Scituate 46.5 Braintree 45.8 Hull 45.6 Marshfield 44.9 Avon 44.9 Pembroke 44.6 Milton 44.5 Abington 44.3 Whitman 44.2 Hanover 43.4 Weymouth 43.0 Walpole 42.2 Holbrook 41.4 Duxbury 41.2 Norwell 40.8 Hanson 17.4 Boston 23.7 Massachusetts
Scituate is home to several Freepers.- tom
The Florida Panhandle is labelled as “Fu***d Up S**t!
LOL!
I wonder how they arrived at that?!
I say Britain is full of very real Islamic radicals.
In my experience, the English do not understand and are generally hostile towards ethnic identity in the United States. The experience of white immigrants to the USA was largely shaped by their religions, which they retained and was a large part of their sense of community. The English gave up their ancient religion starting with Henry VIII and replaced it with some kind of civic religion of Englishness, and they are not really in tune with how much Christianity is taken seriously by Americans and affects our society. Relative to the US, it is a very secular country (excluding their Muslims of course!). So there’s a lot of Englishmen with Irish Catholic ancestors but relatively few of them retained the Catholic religion and as result they have lost touch with Irishness and have a non-comprehension of the completely different experience of the “fake Irish” they are mocking. At least that’s how I see it! (All that said, the English are great!) (but not so much at soccer)
I one sense I agree with them: only fake Irish could have failed to see through the Kennedys and blindly continued to send them to Washington.
Why would anyone want to pretend to be Irish? It makes no sense.
SNL - Irish Drinking Songs
https://screen.yahoo.com/irish-songs-000000345.html
There are no Irishmen or Englishmen who are fake or Wannabee Bostonians, however. What does that tell you?
We have an area we go on the Gulf Coast on the FL Panhandle. I’m glad to not have more idiot tourists of any description showing up.
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