Do I read that correctly that there are 5x more descendants of Irish immigrants in America than people in actual Ireland?
Let me guess: Spain is not listed because they are included in “Hispanic” because of their language?
This is a European diaspora, not American. Diaspora is about the point of origin not the destination.
title should be “European diasporas” or “origins of euro-American populations”.
Let’s not be American-centered
5.3 of every 1 American is Irish.
What’s up with norway?
As specifically a Bavarian, I have always appreciated when Americans tell me that they have German ancestors, with this implication that this binds us culturally, ethnically, and so forth. Meanwhile Bavarians barely tolerate some other town of assholes who happen to live on the “wrong” side of the river or just too far down some valley for them the begin to distinguish a new set of in and out groups.
I have totally pleasant and I believe to be genuinely non-racist family members who basically think North Franconians aren’t the same as South Franconians and that is not really controversial to them.
It’s a unique and beautiful aspect of a country like America that it has essentially made it impossible for people to distinguish their identity to such a magnified degree.
United States of Greater Ireland.
Ireland and Ukraine know what its like to live next to imperialist neighbours to their east.
There is roughly 52 million English descent in the US, meaning it should be 92% instead of the (shoddy self reporting) 50%.
I wonder what the “first generation” diasporas would look like numbers wise.
FYI: It’s all just self-declared ancestry and completely meaningless without a proper study.
usa is still an infant country compared to europe; even our europe microstates have bigger history books than usa. with the country being so new and multicultural, they are still trying to find their ground, so americans are still kinda obsessed with labeling and categorising their indentity even if they probably have no actual real connection to these countries.
for us in europe, we would call an irish american as someone that was born in ireland and moved to usa, or was born in usa to parents born in ireland, but even then many of us that have immigrant friends in our countries will just refer themselves as ‘french / british/ german etc etc’ and at most they will say whatever race/skin color + country
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[Data source](https://data.census.gov/table?t=Ancestry&d=ACS+5-Year+Estimates+Detailed+Tables&tid=ACSDT5Y2021.B04006). The [FAQ](https://www.census.gov/topics/population/ancestry/about/faq.html) suggests that the figures for Spain might be listed in the “race and Hispanic tables” but I’m not sure where those are.
Do I read that correctly that there are 5x more descendants of Irish immigrants in America than people in actual Ireland?
Let me guess: Spain is not listed because they are included in “Hispanic” because of their language?
This is a European diaspora, not American. Diaspora is about the point of origin not the destination.
title should be “European diasporas” or “origins of euro-American populations”.
Let’s not be American-centered
5.3 of every 1 American is Irish.
What’s up with norway?
As specifically a Bavarian, I have always appreciated when Americans tell me that they have German ancestors, with this implication that this binds us culturally, ethnically, and so forth. Meanwhile Bavarians barely tolerate some other town of assholes who happen to live on the “wrong” side of the river or just too far down some valley for them the begin to distinguish a new set of in and out groups.
I have totally pleasant and I believe to be genuinely non-racist family members who basically think North Franconians aren’t the same as South Franconians and that is not really controversial to them.
It’s a unique and beautiful aspect of a country like America that it has essentially made it impossible for people to distinguish their identity to such a magnified degree.
United States of Greater Ireland.
Ireland and Ukraine know what its like to live next to imperialist neighbours to their east.
There is roughly 52 million English descent in the US, meaning it should be 92% instead of the (shoddy self reporting) 50%.
I wonder what the “first generation” diasporas would look like numbers wise.
Why did you just basically repost [my post](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/10cpzw4/comment/j4pn9jk/?context=3)
FYI: It’s all just self-declared ancestry and completely meaningless without a proper study.
usa is still an infant country compared to europe; even our europe microstates have bigger history books than usa. with the country being so new and multicultural, they are still trying to find their ground, so americans are still kinda obsessed with labeling and categorising their indentity even if they probably have no actual real connection to these countries.
for us in europe, we would call an irish american as someone that was born in ireland and moved to usa, or was born in usa to parents born in ireland, but even then many of us that have immigrant friends in our countries will just refer themselves as ‘french / british/ german etc etc’ and at most they will say whatever race/skin color + country
Polska America oh oh yeah