(Although we seem to have more than our quotient of Irish-once-a-year too. It's just that it's not unusual to be blind drunk by 10 am on any other day either.)
I AGREE WITH DEBI. ALCOHOLISM IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS.
Seriously, though, I just ... have no idea what to do or say. I don't like my culture being reduced to a mangling of stereotypes, and I don't like people appropriating it and claiming to be a part of it when they're not. I find it genuinely offensive and hurtful.
Not to mention that, honestly, it's creepy. It's so, so incredibly creepy. It's someone who dyes their hair the same shade as yours and starts dressing the same, and claims their birthday is the same as yours, and then gets angry when you tell them to fuck off, only on a nationwide scale.
I'm morbidly curious now, even though I can just about figure out the gist of it all.
Argh. If it was just something that happened on St. Patrick's Day, I could deal, but it seems like it happens all the time. If I could even just convince the people I know online, I could settle for that, but whenever I try I either get ignored or given some nonsense about heritage, and I don't understand how they can be friends with me with one breath and then appropriate my culture in another.
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And that part where they came in drunk on work days to teach their children that way.
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Unless, you know, you're not British or Irish.
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(Although we seem to have more than our quotient of Irish-once-a-year too. It's just that it's not unusual to be blind drunk by 10 am on any other day either.)
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Seriously, though, I just ... have no idea what to do or say. I don't like my culture being reduced to a mangling of stereotypes, and I don't like people appropriating it and claiming to be a part of it when they're not. I find it genuinely offensive and hurtful.
Not to mention that, honestly, it's creepy. It's so, so incredibly creepy. It's someone who dyes their hair the same shade as yours and starts dressing the same, and claims their birthday is the same as yours, and then gets angry when you tell them to fuck off, only on a nationwide scale.
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I was about ready to slap some of them, and I'm not even Irish.
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Argh. If it was just something that happened on St. Patrick's Day, I could deal, but it seems like it happens all the time. If I could even just convince the people I know online, I could settle for that, but whenever I try I either get ignored or given some nonsense about heritage, and I don't understand how they can be friends with me with one breath and then appropriate my culture in another.
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