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Originally Posted by Docere
Right, different from Ireland obviously. But to what extent does an Irish-American subculture exist at this point?
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People of Irish ancestry (especially Irish Catholics) are generally proud of their heritage and achievements, but except for St. Patrick's Day usually don't make much of a show of it. Irish ethnic identity and pride usually doesn't reach the extent it sometimes does in people of Greek, Arab, Armenian, Italian, Jewish, Mexican, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese and Chinese heritage for example, in my opinion.
People of Irish ancestry, for example, usually don't go out of their way to help other people of Irish ancestry (although some do), as much as some other ethnicities do. What I term "ethnic nepotism" is fairly low among Irish (as it is among German and English-Americans), but present in some other groups, although there are exceptions.
But no hard and fast generalizations can be made. Everybody is an individual, and should be treated as an individual, not a member of a group. There are good and bad individuals in every group.