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To not want to be slagged off all the time because I was born in England?

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JustaNickname · 19/03/2011 23:32

I've lived in Ireland nearly my whole life and my heritage is Irish essentially Both my parents were born in England when my grandparents went there to work when times were hard. My parents grew up in England, met each other, had me, moved to Ireland and had my sister etc. Even though my family tree would be Irish and my son was born here I'm not ashamed of having been born in England and I love it there and still have plenty of family there. My problem is that a lot of the people I know slag off the English all the time to the point I actually end up getting into heated discussions with them. Usually on FB over Football matches and such but sometimes in RL as well.

AIBU to expect that If you really hate the English that much and insistent on labeling every English person a C**T then maybe you shouldn't be such a hypocrite and Go to England, eat English food, watch English tv shows/films and support English football teams? I think i might actually be over sensitive but it honestly bothers me :(

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SummerRain · 23/03/2011 21:25

I'm no history expert but I believe in Celtic times we were hunters for the most part, supplementing with small scale farming and foraging.

More recently though i couldn't tell you.... that snippet of knowledge is based on going to Craggaunowen on a school tour when I was 10 Grin

KenDoddsDadsDog · 23/03/2011 21:39

Oats, fish, meat, vegetables. I watched a programme about potatoes last week and it said on that!

petisa · 24/03/2011 15:28

Asked the same question in history class. According to the teacher, oats, barley, fish, hare, vegetables, apples...

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