Hoi Americans

[j2k4]

Does it go back to Ellis Island at all.

Certainly in the West of Scotland the ghettos were deliberately created. Miners from Ireland would be put in a village with either other Catholics or Protestants.

If your people were similarly divided, by country of origin one could see how the whole prefixed national identity would evolve.

And also the Irish and the Italians are particularly proud of their national identities, one could also see how a mere handful of generations would not remove that.

Congratulations; you've just rationalized your nit-pick.

Actually, my take is picking nits as well:

For the most part, while the entire Ellis Island episode and the attendant (other-than-black) racism is a lesson in overcoming differences.

The irony was that when the Afro-American reference became de rigueur, blacks were greeted with responses intended to communicate the easy-to-point-out aspect of it's redundance (as in, "yes, we can see that you are from Africa"), which was at once cruel and easy to shrug off.

Unfortunate, yet true, and this current phenomenon springs from a misguided urge to compensate and accomodate - the fact it is perpetuated by liberalism is kind of a dirty secret.

[Proper Bo]

I bet you can remember when this was all fields
edit: @jp

[j2k4]

I bet you can remember when this was all fields
edit: @jp

Yup.

[Mr JP Fugley]

I bet you can remember when this was all fields
edit: @jp

:earl::absolutely:

The house I was brought up in was right beside the country and I could walk out the front door and walk into fields and stuff. There's loads of houses there now and I bemoan the fact.

True Story.

[Mr JP Fugley]

Does it go back to Ellis Island at all.

Certainly in the West of Scotland the ghettos were deliberately created. Miners from Ireland would be put in a village with either other Catholics or Protestants.

If your people were similarly divided, by country of origin one could see how the whole prefixed national identity would evolve.

And also the Irish and the Italians are particularly proud of their national identities, one could also see how a mere handful of generations would not remove that.

Congratulations; you've just rationalized your nit-pick.

Actually, my take is picking nits as well:

For the most part, while the entire Ellis Island episode and the attendant (other-than-black) racism is a lesson in overcoming differences.

The irony was that when the Afro-American reference became de rigueur, blacks were greeted with responses intended to communicate the easy-to-point-out aspect of it's redundance (as in, "yes, we can see that you are from Africa"), which was at once cruel and easy to shrug off.

Unfortunate, yet true, and this current phenomenon springs from a misguided urge to compensate and accomodate - the fact it is perpetuated by liberalism is kind of a dirty secret.

I'm taking that as a yes.

[Proper Bo]

i didn't believe these "field" things existed til the wench made me walk the dog in one.
there was a bull there too. true story.

[Mr JP Fugley]

i didn't believe these "field" things existed til the wench made me walk the dog in one.
there was a bull there too. true story.

I gambolled and frollicked thro' the fields for most of my early childhood. We made our own fun in those days but.

Then it was jumpers for goalposts, in the best traditions.

[Proper Bo]

i didn't believe these "field" things existed til the wench made me walk the dog in one.
there was a bull there too. true story.

I gambolled and frollicked thro' the fields for most of my early childhood. We made our own fun in those days but.

Then it was jumpers for goalposts, in the best traditions.

Nowt wrong with bin bags for goalposts

[Proper Bo]

Half a brick as a ball too.

[manker]

It's still all fields around here, like.

I think I'm a relic from JP's passed.