35 Things People Embody So Deeply That Their Entire Personality Revolves Around It, As Shared In This Online Group

Yes. I don't have OCD, but I like everything being organized, but at a certain point I just don't care...

I'm half Irish, and there's people I've spoke to that are in the US and found out they are maybe like.. one tenth Irish, but they make jokes like "haha us ginger leprechauns" .. I don't really mind, but please. You're American, not Irish. Same way that I wouldn't say I'm fully Irish or fully Romanian, I'm half and half, yes, but I'm British. Edit: I don't wanna say don't be proud of your heritages, I certainly am, I've been learning Romanian and Irish, make Irish and Romanian foods, etc. But I would never say I'm FROM those countries, just that my ancestors are.

well, try being of Chinese descent and having people vacillate between wanting to rant angrily about the "China flu" or how evil the communist party is, or just randomly yelling NI HAO at you. or bowing to you! i can't tell you how many times people have bowed at me for absolutely no reason! b***h, I'm an American just like you and i double majored in English literature at Berkeley, so my English is just fine tyvm. i keep meaning to counter by ranting about how much i hate British imperialism or German Naziism, randomly yelling BONJOUR or ELLO GUV'NOR, and maybe bursting into Irish jigs for no good reason. but every time this bs happens to be I'm too taken aback to react in time 😖

i've long held the suspicion people from the US have an identity crisis. I was asked there where i was from. My answer (Australia) wasn't enough and the follow up question was "But where do you come from?" As if outlining my genetic DNA would give more relevant information. huh? "well, homo sapien, neanderthal and denisovian."

Yes!! It's seriously just mocking actual Scandinavia people!

The picture here is a bunch of British reenactors, which seems like the wrong picture to put with the quote.

Some of that Vikings show was made here in Ireland so now we have a load of eegits walking around thinking they're vikings. It's almost as annoying as Americans claiming to be Irish.

As a Dane, sometimes people will try tell me how to pronounce my own language, like b***h please you can't speak my language and frankly their pronunciation is often awful.

North Carolina has a huge scot-irish ethnix makeup. The Lake Norman (Loch Norman) highland games just occurred. I'm telling you if there is one group of people that actually to stick as close to accuracy as possible its the Scottish Carolinians.

I am half Welsh and half German. I was born and live in Wales but spent most of my childhood in Germany (forces family) I speak English and German fluently and consider myself legitimately of blended heritage. My passport says British but I feel equally German. My great great grandparents were English but I do not consider myself English at all. I did live in England for a few years. When I speak German I actually speak in the accent of my Mums area.

I don't condone this, but I understand it to some extent. (No, I don't partake in any of those shenanigans.) in many places in the US, we're 3-5 generations removed from all the immigrants who stole and colonized the land. We don't really feel like we have our own culture yet. My grandparents were either born in Norway and came here as toddlers or were born shortly after their parents arrived. (I don't for sure which.) They did not speak English until they went to school. There is a Norwegian museum close by. We used to have colleges where the primary language was Norwegian. We definitely have a different culture than other areas such as the coasts due to the people who immigrated here. (I'm in Minnesota.) But if people are going to pick up the culture of their ancestors, it's disrespectful to attempt to do so without actually researching. I'd be annoyed as well if I were you.

It’s just arrogance and ignorance 🙄

This is a medieval reenactment group called SCA. cool your offended jets. (For half a second, I thought I saw my BIL, who’s super active in it)

Most Americans I've met always love to tell me about their granny's pet dogs Scottish cousin. Cool story. I don't really care - and then they try to our Scottish you on whatever clan they claim to have descended from and what their tartan is blah blah. Again, cool story. But I'm still Scottish and you aren't. I was born here, to Scottish parents and Scottish grandparents, great grandparents etc etc - it's all very good you wanting to know your heritage and make that part of your identity, after all my house is older than the US - but stop trying to outdo those people who are actually citizens at nation and earned their Scottish badge by falling out the garage on sauchiehall street a dozen nights in a row straight into the noodle bar (gone but not forgotten) and lived to tell the tale.

Was not aware vikings were stinky fat lard filled f*****s....oh, sorry, that is just their u.s. "descendants".

Same could be said for American Italian/Irish/Scottish/Spanish etc etc. They don't have much history so cling desperately to some connection with a country that has. Shame they couldn't respect and embrace the one history they did have.

OK this comment is ridiculous. 1st off I'm from America and I have never seen Viking die hards. Sure there's people out there that like to do the role play like I'm in the Civil War area so you see them do that sometimes, But die hard really? Also who's to say they don't know more about the Viking heritage just because you grew up in Ireland doesn't mean you know any more than that person does. It's not like The Vikings are here to tell us anything. We are all just studying it and learning it. So whether Americans are learning through books or classes or you're learning it through it be in pass down through your generations egenerations either way I guarantee you it would've got messed up somewhere in those generations if he came all the way from The Vikings just like it would get messed up by us reading it in the books. So again no 2 was dumb.

Ask any American what their nationality is and you'll get the wrong answer 100% of the time. For a country that's rapidly going nationalistic, you'd think they'd know the correct answer. Even the US Census doesn't actually understand the term nationality.

This is a multi-part problem type looking at. This happens because a surprising number of Americans are living Dunning-Kruger graphs. Another part of this comes from Americans living in a country where people are encouraged to be incredibly milquetoast. Middle Americans, specifically the people in the center of this country, don't always have complex personalities. They get made to feel like having special interests makes them weird and unpalatable. These people will find that 1 thing that seems somewhat acceptable in America's land of bland, and they go all out to such a degree that they become irritating to the rest of humanity.

Yeah. As a swede, I feel you. Except I don’t feel mocked as much as I feel pity. After a certain point it’s just so very sad. And why would one be desperate to have viking ancestry anyway? We could be right assholes at times.

As a Dane I crince when I hear these things.