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To: NZerFromHK; Happygal; Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; Fergal; ...

The truth is there is a lot of British blood in the Irish, and a lot of Irish blood in the British.

56 posted on 02/25/2006 4:21:37 AM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)

To: Irish_Thatcherite

The definition of British/Irish ancestry that I use is: anyone who has 50% or more ancestral blood who came from what we call the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland today.

Looks like I don't qualify.

63 posted on 02/25/2006 12:00:50 PM PST by tuliptree76

To: Irish_Thatcherite; Wallace T.

It appears that here in New Zealand British and Irish descents don't differentiate each other too much. Everyone seems to have mixed into a generic British-Irish descents and the indicator of their father's ancestry seems to be their nominal religious affiliation.

In the United States it is the other story - people would classify quite deeply into Scots-Irish, Irish, English etc. The anti-British attotudes of some otherwise politically conservative Irish-Americans also astounds me. Their rhetorics read like apologists of the hardline IRA for instance which Irish descent Australians on a whole would not make. Meanwhile in New Zealand it seems the Irish descents have made peace with the British descents.

65 posted on 02/25/2006 10:21:51 PM PST by NZerFromHK (Leftism is like honey mixed with arsenic: initially it tastes good, but that will end up killing you)

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