that doesn't make the Irish less British though, how much they may hate it.
Well. Ireland has, at several points in time, been under British rule. Currently, and for the foreseeable future, we have Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, and thus you could call them British, as well as The Republic of Ireland, or Éire, which is made up of 'southern' Ireland and County Donegal.
Then I suppose you have the 'Irish' that are found in America. These are Americans who are about as Irish as I am German; I've been distantly related to German people, but never been there, never been part of the culture, and those ancestors are long dead anyway.
Like so, at the end of this joke. http://youtu.be/N0rUtSLZTlc?t=2m46s
I'm descended from Germans too! On my Mums side, they came to Britain sometime in the 1860's, I'd love to learn about that side of my family though, I think my mum says they lived near Alsace Lorraine though my Uncle said ages ago they were Hessian.
Mr T
"Because you clearly have a MAJOR sense of bias and one-sidedness that gives Americans a bad hearing, you clearly have that attitude that gives Americans a bad name, that "Ooooh 'MURICA land of freedom, liberty, the British were tyrants who needed to be stopped with their evil! Blablablablacrap".
First of all, I don't have any bias, and I've never word by word said what your wrote about what I presumably said, so you might want to stop with clowning and begin to communicate like a grown up. I think you interpreted what I said the way you did because you are having hard time accepting the fact that Britain wronged colonies and suffered consequences because of it. Once again my so called "attitude", is nothing more than your imagination playing tricks on you. In a matter of fact I think you are the one who has some kinda stinky attitude about the whole thing. I noticed it among europeans that whenever you start mentioning America and how much you cherish our history, values and freedoms all of a sudden they become all butthurt and begin spazzing all over the thread with "MURICA and other nonsense.
"As a British person, I can accept that Britain did many bad things in its history, every country has in their history, America no exception, but to say that the British were evil tyrants in the Americas? Just not true."
When did i say that British were tyrants? What I insinuated precisely was that the regime was tyrannical and oppressive towards the colonies.
Oh I'm not communicating like an adult am I? I believe I've been as civil and adult as I can with you. I don't believe you deserve to be treated as an adult.
When did you say the British were tyrants? Are you serious? You just said it there "the regime was tyrannical", which is exactly the same as say that the British were tyrants. Can you give me any evidence whatsoever, that the British were "tyrannical and oppressive towards the colonies". Are there any examples of them, mistreating Colonists and suppressing them with violence and taking away their rights? That's just part of what tyranny is
really about.
Using Canada as an example, the Canadians did not see the British as oppressors and tyrants, the British offered people, anyone, Including Americans land in Canada, which there was plenty of, and all they asked in return was for taxes and for their co-operation and help in times of war, these Canadian settlers were known as "late loyalists". Now the Canadians were perfectly happy with being under British rule, it certainly was not oppressive and tyrannical, why would it be different with Central America?
My "imagination" is not playing tricks on me mate, you can't say the British were tyrannical and oppressive without evidence, in large quantities, that they ruled in this way.
