Nothing wrong with being proud of your ancestry, but that doesn’t make you Italian, or Irish or Polish or w/e. If you were born in the USA, you’re American.
The Irish thing is when Americans call themselves Scottish or Irish just because their relatives were, even though they were born in the US. For example I met an American lady (from Seattle if I remember correctly) in Prague a couple of years ago doing a beer tour who exclaimed “Well…
It is a layout thing. In the UK we’ll generally drive (or walk, I know shock horror) to a downtown area, park the car in one place and then walk around all the different shops/utilities etc doing whatever we need to do - including going to an atm which are usually in the wall on the…
Little different though, cos people from the USA refer to themselves as Americans, and generally if you hear “America” you think of the USA. We would never refer to ourselves as European, and we’d generally only say we’d been to America if we”d visited the USA. I guess it’s two sides…
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