I'm Irish and I've heard "My ancestors were Irish" more times than I have flushed a toilet and its beginning to annoy me. Ask anyone from Ireland and they will tell you that its annoying when Americans and others claim to be Irish. Would you consider this cultural appropriation, a more dominant race using a less dominant races culture to their advantage?

What even... if they say they're Irish is bc they have Irish ancestors. Like....

Plz shut up and go to sleep.

Nah. They aren't 'appropriating' it, they're reaching.

But get that semi-hit thread I guess

Kerrygold butter is so good tho, but I don't want to be an appropriator

When everyone in America says "I'm Irish for a day" so they can wear green and drink beer while ****ing a leprechaun... Yeah, I'd say so.

tracing ancestry from a country/race isnt appropriation

this is cultural appropriation

Only the native Americans have ancestors from this country. How are you gonna be offended if people have ancestors from other countries? That's also not something only people in America do. Embarrassing

Yes and it's highly offensive.

Any non-Irish person celebrating St. Patrick's Day is appropriating culture BY DEFINITION!

Most annoying is when they say St. Patty's Day, though. Like, get it together.

This is the most annoying thing, like where did that even come from?

But American isn't a race?

St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland and then had an pop megastar like Britney be inspired by and reference it at the VMAs like 1,500 years later. For such a small country, we gotta admit that Ireland's impact on America and within the world in general is incredible.

Is Americans

Yes.

So people should just ignore their cultural background and be ignorant about their own family origins. well alrighty then

It's not like Ireland didn't have a giant famine in the mid-1800s that lead over a million people away from that country. Chances are, a lot of people are going to have Irish heritage because of this.