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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, i feel a yearning to return to my ancestors’ land. It’s not guilt but I definitely don’t feel great or proud about being descended from [b]colonizers[/b]. I wish my family had maintained Irish citizenship through the generations. [/quote]

Just move out of Montgomery County.  That would be a good start.  [/quote]

DP. [b]Why are you so hostile to people expressing a very normal and understandable feeling? [/b]Are you the same person posting angrily in this thread or are there multiple?

I don't understand the hostility here. People are saying "I don't feel like I belong, I wonder if I would belong more in my ancestral home." Even if you disagree with them, which is a totally valid perspective, I don't understand why it's making people so hostile. It is a vulnerable, very human desire, to admit you feel adrift.[/quote]

Because it’s neither normal nor understandable.  It’s guilt induced by what is essentially a religion that’s refuses to think of itself as a religion.  It’s a viewpoint not rooted in any true knowledge of the larger history of humanity.  It’s not normal to feel guilty about having been born as a fourth-generation person in this country and feel like you don’t belong to it.  Or to think you could move back to Ireland because 1/8 of your ancestry left during a famine and somehow think that you belong in that country instead.  Trust me, you don’t and they won’t accept you as some returning prodigal child despite whatever fantasy you hold.  [/quote]

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