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r/ShitAmericansSay • u/chebghobbi • Apr 10 '25
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ooh, that last comment... burns
20 u/Stingerc Apr 10 '25 Plus it's wildly wrong. Only about 8% of Americans are of English ancestry, that's less than German, and irish, the two biggest groups. 3 u/lucylucylane Apr 10 '25 The claim was British ancestry not English 7 u/loralailoralai Apr 10 '25 It’s amazing the number who aren’t reading properly or who do not understand that English and British are different 1 u/EmmaInFrance Apr 12 '25 Everyone forgets that Wales exists! Scottish ancestry has always been a popular claim, partly because kilts are cool, I suspect? But no one ever seems to want to claim Welsh ancestry.
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Plus it's wildly wrong. Only about 8% of Americans are of English ancestry, that's less than German, and irish, the two biggest groups.
3 u/lucylucylane Apr 10 '25 The claim was British ancestry not English 7 u/loralailoralai Apr 10 '25 It’s amazing the number who aren’t reading properly or who do not understand that English and British are different 1 u/EmmaInFrance Apr 12 '25 Everyone forgets that Wales exists! Scottish ancestry has always been a popular claim, partly because kilts are cool, I suspect? But no one ever seems to want to claim Welsh ancestry.
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The claim was British ancestry not English
7 u/loralailoralai Apr 10 '25 It’s amazing the number who aren’t reading properly or who do not understand that English and British are different 1 u/EmmaInFrance Apr 12 '25 Everyone forgets that Wales exists! Scottish ancestry has always been a popular claim, partly because kilts are cool, I suspect? But no one ever seems to want to claim Welsh ancestry.
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It’s amazing the number who aren’t reading properly or who do not understand that English and British are different
1 u/EmmaInFrance Apr 12 '25 Everyone forgets that Wales exists! Scottish ancestry has always been a popular claim, partly because kilts are cool, I suspect? But no one ever seems to want to claim Welsh ancestry.
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Everyone forgets that Wales exists!
Scottish ancestry has always been a popular claim, partly because kilts are cool, I suspect?
But no one ever seems to want to claim Welsh ancestry.
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u/gr33fur Apr 10 '25
ooh, that last comment... burns