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   From: cequka@iprimus.com.au   
      
   "William Black"  wrote in message   
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   > "Féachadóir"  wrote in message   
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   >> Scríobh "William Black" :   
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   >>>"Raktizer Omheit"  wrote in message   
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   >>>> Allan, as for the southern Irish, what they say in public and what they   
   >>>> really think and feel in private can be quite completely different   
   >>>> things,   
   >>>> as with any ethnic group in the world.   
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   >>>When did 'Irish' become an ethnicity?   
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   >> Ethnic: Of or relating to people grouped according to a common racial,   
   >> national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin.   
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   >> Perhaps you could tell us when Irish *wasn't* an ethnicity?   
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   > 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'.   
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   > It makes the term meaningless.   
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   > William Black   
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   > William, you forget the American "Indians," or rather distantly related   
   > Asians and Ainu, who crossed over into the Americas when an Ice Age land   
   > bridge called Beringia used to exist where the Bering Straits now   
   > separates Asian Siberia from Alaska, and from there the whole of the   
   > Americas.   
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   > 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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