adri2771 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

ridicolous. Two types are those who are italian, and those who wish they are. Im fuckin joking man, this speech sounds ridicolous to me. Be proud of what YOU've done, not of where the fuck you were born, or where your family belongs. You can love your country too, but nationalism sucks really hard, and sometimes the line between pride and nationalism and shit like these are blurred. By the way i love too my country, so im talking of something i'm involved.xenophilia sucks as nationalism.or not?

irishprideyank (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

How can you listen to this and not be proud to be Irish?!! (or wish you were!)

docod101 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Obvisiously Mr.Chinese man u wudnt b proud of your ethicities coz u dont dont know where u came 4m.. of course bin irish s sumting 2 b proud of..

sunshineinchains (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What's all this now? We's all God's chilluns.

irishprideyank (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Look, it's just something I can identify with and makes me feel good. I'm proud of the accomplishments people like my dad have made in this country, and around the world. The Irish along with the Jews are some of the most dispersed people, and I take pride in the fact that my forefathers who came from a tiny island oppressed by other Europeans were able to make so much success for themselves and build such a great culture. You're blowing in this way out of proportion.

miacrow2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

it has nothing to do with the length of time that my parents have been in the country. i am part native hawaiian, have lived in hawaii all my life, go to a school that is for hawaiians and have learned about the hawaiian culture from the time i entered school, but i'm not proud to be hawaiian. its a part of me, but its a part of me i had no control over. you should look up the word pride and think about whether that really describes your feelings towards the fact that you were born irish.

irishprideyank (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I get where you're coming from but I don't agree with you. Maybe we just view pride differently, but my politically-correct excuse is that I'm proud of what my people have accomplished. I don't see anything wrong in being proud of what makes you you. Maybe it's different for you because your family has been here longer than mine so you're just American, but when you're so closed to the original culture like I am (my parents are from IReland), it's hard not to be proud.

miacrow2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i am ethnically irish so your last statement is stupid and it goes against the idea that you don't think the irish are better. i just said why i object to the use of the word pride. you can't be proud of something you didn't accomplish because you had nothing to do with it. you are feeling admiration for their accomplishments, not pride. unless you PERSONALLY accomplish something, you shouldn't be proud of it. and if you do accomplish something, then what does it have to do with your race?

miacrow2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

im french and irish so fuck you

miacrow2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

this is simply not true. i am 3/8 chinese but do not identify at all with traditional chinese culture, have no desire to go to china and think it is a generally shitty country to live in. the place of my birth has affected me far more than where my distant ancestors were born. i am not even sure of a quarter of my ethnicities and have no idea how much of each ethnicity i am (except chinese).