I know it distracts from the topic but I ought to clear the air...
For the record, I'll state that when I was little, I used to want to be Irish. For a brief period of time, I even lied to certain people and said I was Irish. I remember in kindergarten, we were making little leperchauns in class and I was asked if I was Irish. Everyone in the class was at least part Irish. I think I just assumed that I was as well. I went home that night and found out that I wasn't. It was disappointing for a little kid. I wanted to be like everyone else especially since I live in an area dominated by Irish Catholics.
As the years went on, I began to realize that not only was I one of the few people that wasn't Irish, I was one of the few people fully Italian. Instead of disliking it, I became proud of it. For a few years in grade school, I became fed up with everything being Irish and began to dislike it. I became fanatically Italian. You think I'm bad now? You really have no idea.
Then, I grew up. I realized that the Irish and Italians actually have a lot in common. It's a shame because I have this one friend who is partly Irish and partly Italian. He's the way I was in grade school. He considers himself fully Italian (though he's only 25%) and hates anything associated with the Irish. It's really quite sad. I'm the one in our group of friends that has to tell our one friend off from time to time and I'm actually the one who is fully Italian.
Ok, no more ethnicity talk.
Poll
