Egal wie sehr du dich zukokst , Tripper bleibt schmerzhaft ! <| sep |> Because it is weird and divisive . It ' s not like America is unusual in been a melting pot of cultures . immigration exists in Europe as well and at much larger rates within modern history , but it comes across as plastic and fake when Americans claim to be part of a culture which they know very little about apart from some colours and stereotypes . And it leads to unintended negative consequences like ' Irish Americans ' sponsoring terrorism in the Irish homeland out of some misguided sense of loyalty . My descendants are also from Ireland but I ' m not an Irishman or Anglo Irish . I ' m a proud Englishman , raised in England , among Englishmen and supported and educated with English taxes . I ' ve been to Ireland once , I know very little of Irish culture aside from the generalisations of media and a vague similarity to my own culture and I feel no loyalty what so ever to the Irish or the Republic of Ireland . It seems incredibly divisive to me how entrenched Americans are in their own ancestry and ethnic culture . Where I ' m from it doesn ' t matter where your family are from if your English , your English period . If your not , your not .