President Biden; impact on UK, Ireland, Brexit, trade etc..
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surreybrowncap
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My Irish Grandma always said politics is ingrained into being Irish. Something to do with the history of oppression and sectarianism but also the strong oral, storytelling tradition which is part of the culture. There might be something in that behind their apparent political hegemony in the US...
Aladdin
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ElizabethofYork
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Thank you, our Ireland correspondent.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
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this is true but there are 2 plane which are air force one as per the white house website
Air Force One | The White House
Air Force One | The White House
Aladdin
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I wasn't tuned into the UK media (newspapers) response to Biden in Ireland... but saw this today.
Amazed at The Times of London and the anti Irish sentiment. They mustn't have realised that the guy was visiting Ireland because he was invited pre covid by the Taoiseach and he got some time with family.
Amazed at The Times of London and the anti Irish sentiment. They mustn't have realised that the guy was visiting Ireland because he was invited pre covid by the Taoiseach and he got some time with family.
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Starry Wisdom
It's not amazing, given the history of the times's attitude to Ireland and the irish
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Says a lot about the uk press
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Way to many Americans are weirdly obsessed with genealogy
“I’m 1/5th Uzbek and 2/3rds Dutch twice removed and part Cherokee on my grandmas side”
Aladdin
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At a certain age most people do start thinking about their genealogy
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Silly Rabbit
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Just enjoyin' my coffee.
It's usually referred to in quarters, eighths and sixteenths.
Remember one of the women I went to Key West with being referred to by her mate as being a bit wild as she was 1/16th Cherokee
Struck me as both racist and irrelevant as everyone is wild in Key West
krtek a houby
Sail hatin'
It's the least worrying of their obsessions, tbf
Yossarian
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Remember one of the women I went to Key West with being referred to by her mate as being a bit wild as she was 1/16th Cherokee
There's a long history of Americans claiming to be part Cherokee
The Cherokees resisted state and federal efforts to remove them from their Southeastern homelands during the 1820s and 1830s. During that time, most whites saw them as an inconvenient nuisance, an obstacle to colonial expansion. But after their removal, the tribe came to be viewed more romantically, especially in the antebellum South, where their determination to maintain their rights of self-government against the federal government took on new meaning. Throughout the South in the 1840s and 1850s, large numbers of whites began claiming they were descended from a Cherokee great-grandmother. That great-grandmother was often a “princess,” a not-inconsequential detail in a region obsessed with social status and suspicious of outsiders. By claiming a royal Cherokee ancestor, white Southerners were legitimating the antiquity of their native-born status as sons or daughters of the South, as well as establishing their determination to defend their rights against an aggressive federal government, as they imagined the Cherokees had done. These may have been self-serving historical delusions, but they have proven to be enduring.
Why Do So Many Americans Think They Have Cherokee Blood?
“I cannot say when I first heard of my Indian blood, but as a boy I heard it spoken of in a general way,” Charles Phelps, a resident of Winston-Salem...
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