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Originally Posted by Don't Be That Guy
Americans cosplaying as Irish is one of the dumbest enduring cultural quirks in the NE USA. Your families haven't been "Irish" in over a century.
Let the Irish figure out what they want to do in terms of unification. Based on the economics of it, I doubt the Republic is really itching to take on the burden of NI. It would wreck their economy.
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That's so bizarre and silly!
In Brazil, White people are usually ridiculed for emphasizing their Italian/German roots (Portuguese/Spanish in a lesser degree), but it doesn't compare to the level of Americans doing it.
The average "Irish" Americans are not Irish and they're completely ignorant about British Isles (or any place abroad whatsoever).
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Originally Posted by Acajack
Mandarin is seriously overrated as an international language.
It's really only useful if you deal primarily with China which admittedly is huge.
But globally French and Spanish, and Russian and Arabic, and maybe even Portuguese, have more reach.
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Even Italian has way more enrolled students than Mandarin in Brazil: English (by far), then Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese and only then Chinese.
No one speaks Mandarin as a foreign language and nor will in our lifetimes.