Are you 'American' or 'Irish'?

[TiltMonkey]

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I don't understand all the percentages, like "I'm 50% Irish, 25% Swedish, and 25% German. But my family has lived here for 200 years." So what the [censored] percentage American are you?

My dad was born and raised in South Wales to Welsh parents and Anglo-Welsh grandparents. My mom was born and raised in Manitoba, and her grandparents were Irish and Scottish immigrants. I was born in California and have lived in Texas since I was less than a year old.

I'm American. When I was a kid, I used to consider myself "British" because it made me different, and that was cool. As an adult, I understand that my life is defined by America, not the place that my parents came from. I suppose I could say I was "raised British" in the sense that my family has something of a unique culture compared to those of my other Dallas-suburbanite friends growing up, but I'm definitely American. When I'm in Wales, no one considers me Welsh because my dad's Welsh and I've spent summers there. When I lived in Poland, no one cared that my father was Welsh and my mother Canadian.

I'm 100% American.

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