Not that I'm taking anyone's side but it's kind of true that Americans, who have no real culture of our own, sometimes latch onto our ancestor's culture for no logical reason. I seem to remember the IRA hitting up people from Boston (the Irish-American "capital") for money.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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