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   From: william_black@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   "Féachadóir"  wrote in message   
   news:60m9l2t10l26p32q49bh24e371icjaq0gr@4ax.com...   
   > Scríobh "William Black" :   
   >>   
   >>"Féachadóir"  wrote in message   
   >>news:q0c9l217laij1urbt3nsj00o49raijhurk@4ax.com...   
   >>> Scríobh "William Black" :   
   >>>>   
   >>   
   >>>>> Ethnic: Of or relating to people grouped according to a common racial,   
   >>>>> national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Perhaps you could tell us when Irish *wasn't* an ethnicity?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Well looking at that it also applies to Land Rover owners and people   
   >>>>from   
   >>>>the United States,  neither of which would usually be called 'ethnic'.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>It makes the term meaningless.   
   >>>   
   >>> No, it means you didn't know what the word meant.   
   >>   
   >>You mean that there is a 'United States ethnicity'?   
   >   
   > Sure. They've got national, linguistic and cultural commonalities.   
      
   Ho ho ho,  and I have a bridge for sale...   
      
      
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   William Black   
      
      
   I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.   
   Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland   
   I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate   
   All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach   
   Time for tea.   
      
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