Who doesn ' t have a second or less ? People don ' t hold still very well . If your event is welllit , you ' ll be fine , but if it ' s dark and full of drunk people and kids not so much . Also , see the no flash and no backup SD thing . If you can ' t bounce flash , forget it . <| sep |> I don ' t say this when introducing myself . I only talk about my roots when I ' m talking about my families history . Most Americans are descendants of migrants , a great majority of which came to the U . S . in the last 200 ish years . Since most of us share that common trait , it ' s a common conversation . Obviously this type of conversation is much less common in , say . Ireland , or France . Once again , it has nothing to do with claiming to actually be British . It ' s simply a short way to describe where my family was 250 years ago , and , once again , it ' s a fairly common casual conversation in the States .