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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How on earth do you know if someone is Irish? A ton of white Americans have Irish ancestry. Maybe the mother's family is Irish? Or are you only allowed to have first names that match the father's ethnicity? [/quote]

Have you ever seen Irish people? I recently met a friend's relative traveling from Ireland, and I was like "Hello, person who looks exactly like me and all my sisters!"  A huge proportion of US Irish people immigrated all at the same time from the same counties during the Potato Famine, so yeah, there's often a very characteristic look.  [/quote]

You have to be joking. Beyond being racist, that isn't even true. I'm tall, dark hair and brown eyes and half Irish. [/quote]

It's racist to say that people of a similar ancestry look alike?  Ok ... obviously many Irish Americans don't look like each other due to intermarriage, but there's absolutely a resemblance for many.  It seems more racist to say that Irish people can't have common features but other ethnicities can. That implies that white people are just "white" whereas other people have defining characteristics related to their heritage.  [/quote]

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