Mustang posted:

I think it's interesting that you rarely ever hear any Americans claiming to be English despite the fact that everywhere you go in the US you're sure to run into plenty of English surnames. Maybe because English immigration is further in the past and "American" as an identity gradually replaced it?

Starks posted:

Maybe it’s different in America but here in Toronto, a lot of white people remember their English heritage every 2-4 years when they join the worlds most hateable soccer fanbase so that they have an excuse to get day drunk. In fact it’s happening right now.

It’s not coming home you losers!

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

it is also true that, unlike canada, while we're cool now most of the early portion of US history was defined by opposition and violent overthrow of the british

Starks posted:

interesting...I should look this up

In that spirit I here's a map of English ancestry in NA, with an absolutely terrible colour scheme:

Starks posted:

Maybe it’s different in America but here in Toronto, a lot of white people remember their English heritage every 2-4 years when they join the worlds most hateable soccer fanbase so that they have an excuse to get day drunk. In fact it’s happening right now.

It’s not coming home you losers!

Reveilled posted:

I think a major factor for Scots is our cultural cringe. Kilts, bagpipes, tartan and the Scots language are quintessentially Scottish things (we don't need to go into the victorian influence on tartan here) and there's a deep seated inferiority complex in many Scots that is deathly afraid of being reduced to that as a stereotype. For about 300 years the way to get ahead in Britain was to be British, not Scottish, and that meant adopting English manners and English culture. Being refined and cultured was not having those things, and even in recent years there's still that deep seated unease that those things are parochial, backwards. And unfortunately, it is what most foreign people know about us, so I think many Scots assume that Americans' knowledge of Scotland basically starts and ends at Groundskeeper Willie.

I'm simplifying, of course, it's more complicated than that, but I think that's the thing, Scots have a complicated relationship with our own culture where pride and shame mingle freely, and so when someone claims to be Scottish when they're really just of Scottish ancestry, there's almost equal parts mix of "you don't even understand the culture you're claiming" and "why the hell would you want this awful culture?". It's why pretty much every scot of a certain age can recite at least part of Renton's "It's shite to be Scottish" speech in Trainspotting.

So yeah, it's more of an us problem than a you problem. I'm glad other x-americans don't get this from their old countries.

ultrafilter posted:

Something like 1 in 6 Americans has German heritage, but you tend not to hear much about that either.

Badger of Basra posted:

trying and failing to imagine an American getting worked up about his "English-American heritage"

like the only person who would do this has several disturbing flag emojis on their twitter profile

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

On the bright side, americans of all creeds and hues mostly agree the english are effete assholes and a shite culture to be colonized by

SlothfulCobra posted:

Koramei posted:

Maybe not the normal case, but I'm English and moved to America as a kid, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a streak of that through high school. On the spectrum of ethnic problems I acknowledge that it's absolutely jack and poo poo in terms of hardships, but there was enough mockery from teachers/students that it rubbed teenage-me the wrong way enough to want to be contrarian.

Especially since that was coming off the heels of indoctrination from British primary school and I had yet to learn much of anything about the atrocities my ancestors committed.

Starks posted:

Maybe it’s different in America but here in Toronto, a lot of white people remember their English heritage every 2-4 years when they join the worlds most hateable soccer fanbase so that they have an excuse to get day drunk. In fact it’s happening right now.

It’s not coming home you losers!

SlothfulCobra posted:

Deltasquid posted:

Deltasquid posted:

mobby_6kl posted:

But how much water would this displace? I'm guessing not an insignificant amount which might be not so great for everyone who's still not landlocked

Platystemon posted:

Like a hundred and thirty million cubic kilometres.

That’s fifty Greenland ice sheets, or a tenth of the total volume of the ocean.

The remaining sea would rise by about four hundred metres.

Platystemon posted:

Like a hundred and thirty million cubic kilometres.

That’s fifty Greenland ice sheets, or a tenth of the total volume of the ocean.

The remaining sea would rise by about four hundred metres.

Platystemon posted:

Like a hundred and thirty million cubic kilometres.

That’s fifty Greenland ice sheets, or a tenth of the total volume of the ocean.

The remaining sea would rise by about four hundred metres.

Platystemon posted:

Like a hundred and thirty million cubic kilometres.

That’s fifty Greenland ice sheets, or a tenth of the total volume of the ocean.

The remaining sea would rise by about four hundred metres.

Quorum posted:

I'm also pretty sure completely eliminating the North Atlantic, and with it the North Atlantic current system, shatters a large portion of the world's climate and throws us all into a new Younger Dryas.

Samuel Clemens posted:

Maybe, but have you considered what sick road trips it would allow?

Deltasquid posted:

Quorum posted:

I'm also pretty sure completely eliminating the North Atlantic, and with it the North Atlantic current system, shatters a large portion of the world's climate and throws us all into a new Younger Dryas.

Platystemon posted: