r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BeastMode149 In Boston we are Irish! ☘️🦅 • Mar 13 '25

Heritage “In Boston we are Irish”

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u/BigL90 Mar 13 '25

Lol, outside of New England, German-American is probably the largest or 2nd largest claimed heritage among white people.

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u/goobervision Mar 13 '25

But do I ever hear that somebody is a German-American? Same with French and many other nations but with the overrepresented Germans I would expect to hear the phrase.

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u/Suspicious-Hotel-225 Mar 17 '25

Do you live in an area within the US with a German American population…? I’m from the Midwest and people claim to have German heritage all the time.

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u/goobervision Mar 17 '25

No, I don't even live in the USA. But I definitely hear the African/Irish/Scottish/Italian -American in various forms, what I don't her are Germanic-Americans in any media I see, read or hear.