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well i was thinking particularly of the english people who suddenly have irish roots come st.patrick's day (i'm english and have no irish ancestry) when i said about the laying of claim, those people wind me up especially because it's only in recent years that there has been this trend of fashionable irishness.
it goes back to what you were saying about national pride, i don't really have any pride in being english, and so i find it utterly absurd when people take pride or celebrate a heritage that is either fictitious or increasingly tangential.
i suppose it might be interesting to know where your ancestors came from but i don't see the need to cling to it or make a song and dance of it. infact i would say do the exact opposite.
i guess people do all sorts of stuff to make their lives seem more interesting, but i reserve my right to be vexed by them.
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