Musings: How much is birth and how much is the cultural raising?
My son was born in the UK but his father is American. He has an English birth certificate and a US Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) and holds dual citizenship. He’s lived in the states since he was 18 months old.
Aside from his Accident of Birth he’s about as American as it gets.
He could rightly claim either. But he can’t claim to be Irish.
I had some guy tell me he’s Irish as his great grandmother was born in Cork.
He pronounced car as caaaaaaaaar. He was as Bostonian/Anerican as they come.
Also the Irish have a distinct language just like Welsh. All of these factor in my opinion.
Bottom line is none of it matters. I think of Canada as home now. I could care less about Wales. Canada has given me more opportunities than I ever had in the UK and I’m very grateful.
It’s a big old world and franticly hanging onto some notion of heritage is just silly.
We are so genetically similar that it’s all just made up.
For the record I love America. I’ve lived there and visit often.
In Europe, throughout history most every country invaded pretty much every other country at some point, and then all the mixed gene pools hopped over the pond in hopes of a better life. Arguing over who is French or Italian or Spanish makes about as much sense as an ashtray on a motorcycle.
Lol… well no, he is British, and more specifically English. Not that anyone would ever know if they met him except for his pride in telling everyone he was born in England 
It was as much a musing on what makes a person part of a culture. I’m only 2 years shy of having lived in the States for as long as I lived in the UK, but I point blank refuse to call myself American. I am English through and through and while it is a bit fuzzy these days I still retain 90% of my accent. My great Aunt and Uncle however who moved to the US many years ago thoroughly adopted the culture, sounded completely American when I met them just prior to moving here and considered themselves American, not English anymore.
Yeah, that’s dumb.
I would also posit that the English have a distinct language that is not American having had to hold my tongue on numerous occasions during his supposed ‘English’ Language Arts homework. 
None of it should matter, while I personally value the importance of cultural heritage and mourn the loss of so many, in many respects, it would (unfortunately) be better for the world as a whole if none of it existed and people didn’t have divisions to fight over about whose culture is better.
Anyhow, just morning musings over coffee. We are all united in our love of music and bass and I love the varied cultures we have here.
As a sweeping generalization the most interesting Canadians I know are the ones who’ve worked and travelled around the world.
The ones more likely to be narrow minded etc are the ones who’ve never left their own province.
Jingoism is for the hard of thinking.
Oh, that’s easy. They all matter. Every culture can replace their own faulty traits with what they learn from other cultures. Well, if they want to, of course
In my understanding that’s what the Sons of Liberty did. They decided the British are idiots for boiling tea leaves, instead they adapted the cold brew idea from some other culture, and tested it in the sea.
Happy Tea Party anniversary 
Happy 4th of July, everyone! 
I’m here for Fourth of July threads that contain both Bruce Lee and Happy Christmas.
Love you crazy Bass Buzzians!!
I’m just excited my dad has a national excuse to barbecue ribs and share them with his ravenous children and grandchildren.
You think that one’s not taught… not only is the 7 year war not taught, but in the rare cases that it is, it’s called the French and Indian war.
But the French invaded Russia in 1812, not India!?!?!
The French and Indian War was only a single theater of the Seven Years’ War, dealing with the period when North American colonies of the British Empire fought against the French.
This was covered in my grade school history class, and we had to write a paper about it.
Not that type of Indian.
Native / Indigenous
Ah, still based on Columbus old mistake, I understand!
That’s definitely something that can be guaranteed here, no thread ever sticks to a single topic. Something I utterly love.
Enjoy your ribs I’ll be cooking venison burgers for my crew later today. Kicking myself for forgetting to grab some Boudain though.
Yep, and was the beginning of the end for France. They ran up massive debts fighting across all of the theaters. Raised taxes to pay them off. Went further into debt helping the treasonous colonials in America against the British. Raised more taxes to pay that debt off. That ended up with the national razor and Robespierre.
I was in Provence/France last year … they recovered pretty good actually!
That is rich, especially on the 4th of July.
Happy Independence Day!
Hmmm… 
Coffee for breakfast, tea in the afternoons… 