working in a supermarket??

well i think you're one of a very small minority of British people who would rather call themselves "european" - seriously!! And i have met countless people on my travels...my last trip in spain, there were a couple of english people in the hostel and they kept calling me english as well, i kept having to explain that i was not english, but irish. they just looked at me like i was some sort of psychotic nationalist type...there was no point in explaining, they were thick as planks....and that's definitely not the only time that's happened to me!!

there are soooo many people i have met with the same reactions. you will never really understand, unless you were irish! i once met an english girl (studied politics at uni might i add), we were living together for a couple months. EVERY TIME she got drunk she'd bring up northern ireland and how did it affect me when i was growing up in a warzone (i'm from the republic) and it must have been terrifing blah blah blah. she would then go on to say how great the english were, how they have so many colonies blah blah - i know that the other english people we were living with were ashamed to claim her, but like come on, how can you have university students not knowing what's going on around them, that's just plain stupid. ESPECIALLY when you've got politics students ranting on about politics that they obviously know nothing about! i know this really is irrelevant to the conversation, but i'm sure that there are hundreds of Irish in here, that would back up my argument, that they are constantly referred to as english!

Cogito, to roast that old chestnut again:

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<hr>But it's good to let your racism show every now and then; how come it's ok to slag off Americans?<hr></blockquote>

My comment is not racist, it's political. It is about the American establishment not the ordinary American as such.
Racism is a completely different cup of tea.