Boxers who say there from a country but thier not...

its actaully about a 50% split, the UK till he was about 9 or 10 years of ages as far as i know, then to canada till he was 18 ish.

 

I been living in the states for 12 years and i don't mind Americans calling themselves Irish if they actually know where their parents/grandparents came from. What pisses me off are the idiots who have a name that sounds remotely Irish and who claim to be Irish yet have no idea when their ancestors came to America or what part they came from.

 

So Oleg Maskaev is American?

Oh, and the Judahs really are descendent from an African Jewish tribe. It's not like he's claiming that he's African.

 

I dont hate Americans.

David Bowie is scared of them though.

I think this issue re: Irish Americans/Identity is one of semantics. America has such a rich tapestry of cultures that they will commonly refer to themselves as African-American, Irish-American, Hispanic-American etc etc.

Over here in Blighty it's judged by what Passport you hold. Hence why if you have an American Passport but your parents are both Irish, we would still consider you to be American. There is a large Asian (India/Pakistan/Bangladesh rather than China/Japan etc) community in Britain with a lot of Asian kids born and bred here in the UK. I know several and they refer to themselves as being British. To use a Boxer take Amir Khan as an example. Of course their heritage is from elsewhere but they are British by virtue of being born and brought up here.

 

You ****ing putz, Black Jews are a REAL religious group. He's not claiming it to be controversial or for a ring persona. That's the way he & his brothers were brought up. I'm pretty sure Yoel's also a Black Jew.

 

No federal taxes, only state taxes. Other than that, nothing different from a 17th century colony.

Duing the obligatory service period a lot of puertorricans died in ww1 and 2 korea and vietnam, sent by a president and congress none of us get to chose.

BTW I'm pro american pro statehood for PR

 

90% of us would say "english" or "scotish" or "welsh" very few of us say we are brits, thats a american/canadian thing for the most part.

/Theo

 

Mickey Ward was born in AMerica. But is of Irish Heritage. So he can call Himself "Irish" Mickey Ward if he pleases.

I was born in America. my dad was born in Ireland. ANd my moms side was born there too. So if someone asks me what "i am" I will say Im

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An example of what I said above.

I'm quarter Irish, based on Grandparents being from the Republic, if someone asks what I am, I state I'm English. Although proud of my heritage and interested in it, I have never been to Ireland, was born and bred in Manchester, England.

 

:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

 

Oleg Maskaev was most recently given citezenship of Russia, just to further confuse matters.

 

I think one aspect of why Irish americans are so quick to idetify themselves as Irish may be because there used to be a large amount of anti-catholic\irish sentiment in the u.s. Therefore the pride their parents had in standing up to that is passed down through the generations.

 

Bottom line, true Americans are the Indian folk. Then, the next Americans were the first settlers from Europe, which consisted of the Dutch, English, German and Polish.

 

It is clear as day!!

Arthur Abraham is Germenian

Vic Darchinyan is Australmenian

Lennox is CanadiEnglish

Hatton is "Mexican"???

Vlad is Ukranian

Gatti is CanadiAmerican

Kostya Tszyu no longer Russian

Maskaev is AmeriRussian

Ponce de Leon is nativexican

Bernard Dunne is Irish

Calcraphe is a Whale (not to be confused with English)

Pac is filipino

Pedro Frenandez is Mexican.

Any questions?