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Just to clarify regarding the previous entry.....I am not unaware of the massive genetic commonality between the major historical inhabitants of the 'British Isles' entire, as that is the big news lately there.....being of English-and-Scottish descent is not much different from being Irish -- except in terms of the culture. And I haven't got issues with culture except when people are bass-ackwards arseholes within and without their own turf, so that's not any sort of real general issue there these days. Actually, if one goes back far enough in the course of history......well, let's not go back "ancient times" on everyone, shall we? -- but at any rate, I'm sure that I have been Irish at some point. It's still not worth getting all ritually-conformist over, imho...
"Blood" is not merely made up of physically-genetic material but of cultural experiences and all the evolved traits that get ingrained into a people in the course of their travails and strife and struggles. Some have very similar struggles, and yet wind up meeting them in significantly different ways -- not saying that one is better or worse overall as that they have different impacts and role-impressions on those who come after in the lineage -- and those are the things that one embraces or not in the blood, and must make do with as they are learned and recognised. Perhaps it's largely mindgame, that one will have a different visceral response to hearing one ethnic or national name over another...and yet that mindgame's been being played for centuries and on both sides to build it up so strong.
Perhaps a little "deconstruction" of such things is in order, if people can take apart the conflation of trait with technicality -- seeing as we are, vis-a-vis "Britain", so much more alike than not...and vis-a-vis humanity in general, stronger in goodly mixture than when isolated and enforced to "purity". Perhaps we can look more clearly at our real similarities/commonalities, and our real and individual differences as well, and what they really mean....
(But that still means no more pinching in the bars, ya loutish drunken oafs....and everyone else as well...:P)
"Blood" is not merely made up of physically-genetic material but of cultural experiences and all the evolved traits that get ingrained into a people in the course of their travails and strife and struggles. Some have very similar struggles, and yet wind up meeting them in significantly different ways -- not saying that one is better or worse overall as that they have different impacts and role-impressions on those who come after in the lineage -- and those are the things that one embraces or not in the blood, and must make do with as they are learned and recognised. Perhaps it's largely mindgame, that one will have a different visceral response to hearing one ethnic or national name over another...and yet that mindgame's been being played for centuries and on both sides to build it up so strong.
Perhaps a little "deconstruction" of such things is in order, if people can take apart the conflation of trait with technicality -- seeing as we are, vis-a-vis "Britain", so much more alike than not...and vis-a-vis humanity in general, stronger in goodly mixture than when isolated and enforced to "purity". Perhaps we can look more clearly at our real similarities/commonalities, and our real and individual differences as well, and what they really mean....
(But that still means no more pinching in the bars, ya loutish drunken oafs....and everyone else as well...:P)
